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black and white, mingled ndth pcncillings of rufons. 
Tail below dark brown, with their basal halves barred 
with white. Beak black; legs and feet orange red; 
tarsi armed with a spur. 
The female is a much plainer-marked bird. The 
forehead, and a faint trace on the back of the neck, 
red; top of the head hair brown, with darker longi- 
tudinal shades; scapularies and wing coverts dark 
brown, with light brown edges; the rest of the back 
and ujiper tail coverts “partridge grey,’^ beautifully 
marked and pencilled Avith darker transverse bands of 
broAvn and white. Primaries black broAvn, Avith russet 
spots and transAmrse bands; the secondaries marked in 
the same way, but the colours lighter, and the bands 
broader. The throat creamy Avhite, going off into 
yellow on the neck; sides of the head rufous, finely 
spotted with black about the ear coverts ; chest and 
abdomen cream Avhite, Avith triangular bars of black, 
and more or less tinged Avith rufous on the sides and 
flanks; loAver part of abdomen dirty Avhite; under 
tail coverts dark rich russet, Avith slight bars of black 
and yellow, and covered on their basal aspect on each 
side by tAvo or three feathers of a yelloAvish Avhite, 
barred Avith black ; tail feathers dark broAvn, lightly 
barred with Avavy bands of Avhite. 
The young after the first moult resemble the adult. 
The males haA'e the spur rudimentary. 
^ly drawings of these birds, male and female, are 
from specimens procured by Mr. Tristram, in Cyprus. 
The bird has also been figured by Brisson, pi. 27, 
fig. 2, in which it may be remarked that this accurate 
observer has omitted to give the spur on the tarsus 
of his figure, AA^hich is a male ; Buffon, pi. enl. 147, 
(male and female ;) Gould, pi. 259. 
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