HACKLED PARTRIDGE. 
(Perdix ferruginea.) 
Fb. rujo-fusca, dorso tectricibiisque alarum lineis longiludinatibus 
Jiavescentibus, pennis colli superiore angustis elongalis ; aqnce 
acutis, line A in medio margineque Jtavis . 
Red-brown Partridge^ with the baek and wing-eoverts with 
longitudinal yellowish lines ; the feathers on the upper part 
of the neek elongated and narrow, their tips aeute, with a 
line in the middle, and their edges yellow. 
Perdix ferruginea. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 651. 26. — Temm, Gall. 
Ind. p. 733. 
Tetrao ferruginous. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1 . 761 . 44. 
La grand Caille de la Chine. Soyiner. Voy. Ind. 2. 17L 
Perdrix a camail. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. 41 6. 
Hackled Partridge. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4 . 766. ll.pl. 66 . 
The Hackled Partridge is figured, and thus 
described, by Latham : “ Length twelve inches : 
beak brown ; tip black : crown of the head dusky 
and ferruginous minutely mixed : on the nape 
and hind part of the neck the feathers are one inch 
and a half long ; the middle part of them black- 
brown, rather glossy ; the shafts and margins al 1 
round of a yellowish buft-colour, and jiointed at 
the ends, which, when they are erected by the 
bird, appear like those on the neck of the Ruffed 
Heathcock ; these feathers are narrower and shorter 
in proportion as they are nearest the head : the 
upper parts of the body are lerrugiiious brown, 
minutely dotted with black: the feathers on the 
