•92 GAME BIRDS OF INDIA AND ASIA. 



and Tahr, it is usually neglected by sportsmen for 

 the nobler game. 



The Tibetan Partridge. 



Perdix hodgsomcs. Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, 

 Vol. IV, p. 142. 



Native name : — Sakpha, Tibetan. 



This partridge bears a strong resemblance to 

 the common partridge at home ; the cock and hen 

 are alike, and neither of them possesses spurs. 

 The plumage is an intricate mixture of buff, black 

 and chestnut, with the throat white and neck 

 chestnut ; the under-parts are white, barred with 

 black, which colour forrhs a patch in the centre, 

 and there is a black patch on each cheek ; the bill 

 and legs are of a dirty green, and there is some 

 reddish skin round the eye. 



This bird is about a foot long, with a wing of 

 six inches. 



The species is, properly speaking, a native of 

 Tibet, but it has strayed into our territories, one 

 having been got by Mr. Wilson in the Bhagirathi 

 valley, when shooting chukor in the autumn of 

 1841. It appears to be a bird of very high ele- 

 vations. Its eggs have been taken in Tibet in 

 July ; they were ten in number, and of a pale drab 

 tint without spots. 



Prjevalsky's Partridge- 



■Perdix sifanica, Brit. Mus. Cat., Birds, Vol. XXII, 

 p. 195- 



Very like the Tibetan partridge, this species, from Kansu, 

 ■may be distinguished by having no black patch on the breast, 

 and by the admixture of chestnut in the black cheek patch', 

 •which is also smaller ; the bird is smaller altogetlier than the 

 Tibetan. 



