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eye a white streak, beneath another, which bounds the upper part 

 of the bare space on the throat, curving downwards ; both arising 

 from the base of the bill ; plumage above brown, a little marked 

 with darker brown ; sides of the neck and under parts -of the body 

 white, dashed with brown ; the brown marks larger, as they are 

 farther from the upper parts; the middle of the breast and belly 

 chiefly brown ; thighs and vent white ; legs red, with a curved spur, 

 as long as the hind claw. 



Inhabits Africa ; said to perch, and in general to carry the tail 

 more spread than Partridges in general ; is probably the same which 

 Levaillant met with at the Cape of Good Hope, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Pampoen's Kraal, which is far within that settlement. He 

 describes it with a naked throat, and red legs. 



In a specimen of this, which came under our inspection, the bare 

 space round the eye extended forwards over the base of the bill, 

 which was yellow ; chin and throat bare and red ; plumage mostly 

 brown, the feathers margined, and mixed with dusky white ; those 

 of the lower part of the neck behind, back, wings, and tail, black 

 down the shafts ; under parts from the breast black, striped with 

 white ; legs red, with a single spur only, placed about the middle ; 

 this is probably a young bird, if not the female of the Bare-necked. 

 M. Temminck joins these two with the Cape one, our first Species, 

 but I am not clear that it is so, as the last named is a considerably 

 larger bird. 



4 —SENEGAL PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix bicalcarata, Ind. Orn.'n. 643. 



Tetrao bicalcaratus, Lin. i. 277. 



Perdix Senegalensis, Bris. i. 231. t. 24. f. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 65. 



Francolin Adanson, Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. iii. p. 305. 



Mm 2 



