70 PLUMED PARTRIDGE. 



large. On the top of the head are two linear-lanceolate, decurved feathers, 

 having their wehs deflected, and three inches and three-quarters long, in the 

 midst of a tuft of smaller feathers. Wings short, convex, much rounded, 

 the fourth quill longest, the third and fifth scarcely shorter, the second four- 

 twelfths shorter than the third, and five-twelfths longer than the second. 

 Tail rather short, much rounded, of twelve feathers. 



Bill black, "iris red," feet dull yellow, claws brown. The upper part of 

 the head, the hind neck, the fore part of the back, the lower part of the fore 

 neck, and part of the breast, greyish-blue; the feathers round the base of the 

 bill white; the elongated feathers on the head black, the throat bright chest- 

 nut, margined on each side by a black line, succeeded by a band of white an 

 inch and a half in length, passing downwards from the eye. The back and 

 rump are reddish-brown, the quills and tail-feathers wood-brown, margined 

 with reddish-brown, the inner secondaries broadly margined internally with 

 white. The middle of the breast bright chestnut, as are the upper hypo- 

 chondrial feathers, which are margined on their inner web toward the end 

 with a narrow black, and a broad white band, the intervening space on the 

 sides broadly banded with white, black, and brownish-red. 



Length to end of tail 11 inches; bill along the ridge f|, along the edge of 

 lower mandible ^\ wing from flexure 5|-; tail 3-^; tarsus 1 T %; hind toe yf , 

 its claw T 3 2; middle toe -jf, its claw T V 



Adult Female. 



The female, which is somewhat less, is similar to the male, but less brightly 

 coloured. The elongated feathers on the head are much shorter, being about 

 two inches long. The middle and hind part of the back, the wings, and the 

 tail, are very minutely and rather faintly undulated with dusky. Otherwise 

 the difference in the colouring is not very remarkable. 



Length to end of tail 10 inches; bill along the ridge ^ wing from flexure 

 5^; tail 3|; tarsus 1 T V, hind toe ■&, its claw T \; middle toe f|, its claw T V 



