Mongolians, who trap them. It would appear from various accounts to be a rock-loving- bird, and to differ 

 in the choice of its haunts from the home species, as Caccabis chukar of the Himalayas and North China does 

 from the French Partridge, Caccabis rubra." 



In general appearance the present bird assimilates to the Common Partridge of Europe more nearly than 

 to its other ally the Perdicc Hodgsonice— but is readily distinguished from the former by its somewhat smaller 

 size, by the lengthened plumes on the cheeks, by the light sandy-buff colouring of its breast, by the jet-black 

 horseshoe-shaped mark on the abdomen, and by a very narrow line of black on the forehead close to the base 

 of the upper mandible, which does not exist in the European bird. 



The male has the hinder part of the crown and the occiput brownish black, striated and mottled with 

 greyish white ; fore part of the head, a broad stripe over each eye, the cheeks, throat, and centre of the breast 

 sandy buff; back and sides of the neck and upper surface of the body light grey, crossed with numerous fine 

 wavy lines of black ; besides which the feathers of the mantle are crossed near the tip with a crescent of lively 

 chestnut, bordered above and below by a light or whitish grey line ; the back and upper tail-coverts are 

 similarly coloured and marked, but the grey tint is paler than that of the neck and mantle ; wing-coverts, 

 scapularies, and innermost secondaries greyish brown, blotched with chestnut and having a conspicuous stripe 

 of dull white down the shaft ; primaries brown, crossed by numerous bands of very pale buff; flanks 

 grey, freckled with narrow bands of black, crossed near the tip with a broad conspicuous band of lively 

 chestnut, and having a line of white down the shaft ; on the centre of the abdomen a horseshoe-shaped mark 

 of jet-black; lower part of the abdomen and under tail-coverts buffy grey; lateral tail-feathers chestnut, 

 becoming darker at the tip ; bill bluish horn-colour ; legs and feet olive-brown. 



The female is very similar, but has only indications of the buff colouring of the breast and of the black 

 mark on the abdomen. 



The Plate represents a male and a female, of the size of life. 



