256 grous. 



shrieking, though not unpleasant, cry; the eggs are white, bigger 

 than those of the Pigeon, and found perfect in the body of the 

 female, the beginning of June ; but the nest has not been met with. 



A. — Length thirteen inches* Bill slender, longish, blue grey ; 

 head, neck, and breast greyish white; on each side of the jaw and 

 throat inclining to rufous; beneath this a transverse crescent of black ; 

 and across the breast a double bar of the same ; then pale rufous, and 

 beyond this black on the belly ; towards the vent pale, with 

 transverse dusky lines; the back, and wing coverts dusky brown, 

 the feathers marked with large, dusky, yellowish white, oval spots ; 

 rump and upper tail coverts crossed with dusky lines, and each feather 

 ending in an oval, yellowish spot; quills and tail black, shape of 

 the last much rounded, or cuneiform, and the feathers white at the 

 ends ; legs covered, on the fore part, with white down ; back part 

 and toes naked and black ; hind toe wanting, but the heel swelling 

 into a knob; no spur is visible; probably, therefore, it is a female bird. 



Inhabits India. — Sir J. Anstruther. One like this, among Gen. 

 Hardwicke's birds, differs in having the fine rufous, beginning at the 

 chin, and passing round the neck, below the nape, more than one 

 inch broad ; tail little cuneiform, ferruginous buff, mottled dusky, 

 barred with black ; the ends of the feathers black and pointed ; 

 above the heel a short spur, without a toe, too high to be useful. 



B. — Perdix Aragonica, Ind. Orn. ii. G45. 



Tetrao pedibus antice hirsutis, calcaratis, remigibus, abdomine, femoribusque nigris, Fn. 



arag. 81. tab. vii. f. 2. 

 Ganga unibande, Ternm. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. iii. p. 240. 

 A ragonian Partridge, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 223. 



Bigger than the Cinereous Partridge. Bill black ; head ash- 

 colour; throat black; round the neck ferruginous; breast rufous, 



* Length in the drawing. 



