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EYED PARTRIDGE. 
Partridge with the head, neck, breast, and belly, deep rufous , 
the back above transversely striated with white and black ; 
the rump dusky, with triangular chesnut spots ; the wing- 
coverts olive-grey, spotted with black. 
Perdix oculea. Temni. Gall. Ind. p. 732. 
Perdrix oculee. Teinm. Pig. et Gall. 3. p. 408. 
Eleven inches in length : the head, the neck, 
the breast, and the belly, are clothed with fine 
cliesnut-red feathers : the sides of the breast and 
of tlie body with transverse black stripes : the 
feathers of the thighs are deep chesnut-red, tipped 
with a round black spot : the upper part of the 
back is striped transversely with white, on a black 
ground : the middle of the back to the upper tail- 
coverts is deep velvety black, each feather adorned 
with a lanceolate spot of a bright chesnut hue : 
the feathers of the tail are dusky brown, edged 
with paler brown: the wing-coverts are deep 
olive-grey, each feather with a black spot, more 
or less rounded in shape : the quills and the se- 
condaries are deep brown, the latter edged with 
chesnut: the abdomen is white: tlie beak and 
the feet are brown. 
Inhabits India. 
