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Perdix perdix. 3. (Leadenhall Market.) Generally pale ; 

 upperside with much rufous chestnut. 



2 (from an old collection). Perfect albinos. 



2. (Leadenhall Market.) With a great amount of 

 white feathers above and below. 



1. (Leadenhall Market.) Breast and abdomen with 

 many white feathers. 



3 ? ? ? . Schadrinsk, Russia, December 1890 (evi- 

 dently from one covey). Very light; chest greyish 

 white, with very fine brown vermiculations ; abdomen 

 and flanks white, with bright chestnut cross-bars and 

 an irregular indication of a " horseshoe" of the same 

 colour. Above rather bright rufous brown, with broad 

 white longitudinal lines most handsomely marked. 



3 ? ? ? . Tobolsk and Orenburg. Very pale above; 

 abdomen white, with u horseshoe " barely indicated. 



?. Orenburg. Above and below very pale yellowish 

 grey ; cross-bars on flanks and horseshoe-mark very 

 pale. 



? . Nishni Novgorod. Throat very pale yellowish 

 buff; crown and hind-neck as usual; rest of upper 

 surface pale silvery grey with white shaft-lines ; rectrices 

 very pale rufous ; lateral cross-bars pale chestnut ; 

 horseshoe-mark small but very conspicuous, being of a 

 dark chestnut-brown. 



? . (England.) Forehead, superciliary stripe, and 

 throat pale cream-colour ; upperside very light grey, 

 with brownish - black cross - markings ; wing - coverts 

 with white shaft-lines ; lateral cross-bars pale buff; 

 under surface generally pale ; horseshoe-mark greyish 

 brown, with some fine black-and-white mottlings. 



Caccabis rufa. 2. (Leadenhall Market.) Large white 

 area across the breast. 



Phasianus colchicus. J 1 ad. Germany (Brehm coll.). 

 Tail and wings partly white, and some white feathers 

 among the wing-coverts, on the head, neck, back, and 

 abdomen. 



