CAUCASIAN SNOW PAKTIIIDGE. 
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the statement adds strength to that of ]\Ir, Gould. 
The male has the top and sides of the head and 
nape what I have called Partridge grey. Scajoularies 
and all the rest of the upper parts the same colour, 
finely dotted with light brown, and marked on the 
wing coverts with broad longitudinal markings of what 
I may also call Partridge brown, being similar to the 
well-known horse-shoe colour of our Grey Partridge. 
Primaries of pure white, with about an inch and a half 
of their distal extremities, dull brown; the secondaries 
having their general colour the same, but the brown 
parts larger, and the outer web the same dotted 
grey as the upper parts. Throat and sides of the 
neck white, the two parts being separated by a broad 
band of Partridge brown, forming a double horse-shoe 
of that colour. From this double horse-shoe to nearly 
the middle of the abdomen, is a broad band of three 
inches and a half, of colours apparently borrowed from 
the French Ped-legged Partridge, but not so distinct, 
being dirty white with black transverse markings across 
the feathers; the rest of the abdomen grey brown. 
The long feathers of the flanks a lighter grey, broadly 
edged with the characteristic brown above described. 
Under tail coverts white; tail feathers rufous below, 
and the same colour above, but thickly spotted with 
small black dots. Beak horn colour; the strong 
thickly scaled tarsi and toes reddish brown; the claws 
strong and obtuse. In my specimen, which is a male, 
and obtained by Mr. Tristram, from Circassia, there is 
no vestige of a spur. 
The bird has also been figured by Gould in his 
magnificent work, the Birds of Asia. 
