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black and white, mingled with pcneillings of rufous. 

 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 tipper tail coverts "partridge grey," beautifully 

 marked and pencilled with darker transverse bands of 

 brown and Avhite. Primaries black brown, with russet 

 spots and transverse bands; the secondaries marked in 

 the same way, but the colours lighter, and the bands 

 broader. The throat creamy white, going off into 

 vellow on the neck; sides of the head rufous, finely 

 spotted with black about the ear coverts; chest and 

 abdomen cream white, with triangular bars of black, 

 and more or less tinged with rufous on the sides and 

 flanks; lower part of abdomen dirty white; under 

 tail coverts dark rich russet, with slight bars of black 

 and yellow, and covered on their basal aspect on each 

 side by two or three feathers of a yellowish white, 

 barred with black; tail feathers dark brown, lightly 

 barred with wavy bands of white. 



The young after the first moult resemble the adult. 

 The males have the spur rudimentary. 



My 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, which is a male; Buffon, pi. enl. 147, 

 finale and female ;) Gould, pi. 259. 



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