356 RED-THROATED TARTRIDGE. 
spot of black at their tips, which is rounded in 
some, and oblong in the others ; the whole are 
tipped with chesniit-red : the quills are grey- 
brown ; the lower part of the neck and the breast 
are lead-colour : the belly, the feathers of the sides, 
the thighs, the abdomen, and the under tail-feathers, 
are deep red : the beak is black, reddish at the 
tip : the irides are grey : the feet are bright red : 
the claws are straight, and very long : the tail is 
hidden by its upper coverts, and is greyish blue, 
undulated with black. 
Native of the plains and mountains of Java, 
IIRD-THROATED PARTRIDGE. 
(Perdix gularis.) 
Pk. vertice nuchaque Jiisca-olivnccis, Jiiscid hifra supruqiic ocnlos 
alba, gulture riifo ; pectore ventreque strigis longitudmalibns 
niveis, corpore supra fusco, rachis pennarum omnium albis, 
rcmigum rachis atris. 
Partridge with the crown and nape fuscous-olive ; a fascia 
above and beneath the eyes white ; the throat rufous ; the 
breast and belly with longitudinal white spots j the body 
beneath brown ; the shafts of all the feathers white, bnt 
those of the quills dusky. 
Perdix gularis. Tcmm. Gall. Tnd.p. 731. 
Perdrix a gorge rousse. Tcmm. Pig. cl Gall. 3. 401. 
Native of India : it is described by Temminck : 
its total length is rather below twelve inches : it has 
