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the statement adds strength to that of Mr. Gould. 

 The male has the top and sides of the head and 

 nape what I have called Partridge grey. Scapularies 

 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 Red-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. 



