268 PARTRIDGE. 



Le Bis-ergot, Buf.W. 443. Id. Sonnin. vii. p. 39. pi. 54. f. 1. PL enl. 137. Tab. 

 Enc. Orn. 212. p. 13. f. 2. 



Senegal Partridge, Gen. Syn. iv. 757. 



A TRIFLE larger than the Red Partridge ; length thirteen 

 inches. Bill one inch long, horn-coloured, and somewhat curved ; 

 top of the head tawny; from the nostrils to the eyes a black line, 

 just passing round them above; over this a rufous white band, and 

 above that a black one, reaching to the hindhead ; sides beneath 

 the eyes white, streaked with black ; neck tawny, marked with 

 brown and dirty white spots ; upper parts of the body and wings 

 brown, tawny, and dirty white, mixed ; beneath from the breast 

 partly the same, but less tawny ; tail rounded at the end, banded 

 tawny and brown ; quills brown, with paler spots ; legs brown, 

 naked, with two spurs, one above the other, as in the Cape Species, 

 but both of them blunt. 



Inhabits Senegal, and said to be a male ; it is probably what 

 Adanson calls the Wood Hen,* and if so, the flesh is very good. 

 The young male has scarcely more than the rudiment of a spur, and 

 the female is without any, the legs being perfectly smooth. 



5— CEYLON PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix Zeylonensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 644. Gm. Lin. i. 759. 



— — — bicalcarata, Zool. Ind. 25. t. 14. 



Francolin Haban-kukella, Temm. Pig. $f Gall. 8vo. iii. p. 311. 



Double-spurred Partridge, Ind. Zool. 4to. p. 40. pi. viii. Pen. Hind. i. 212. 



Ceylon Partridge, Gen. St/n. iv. 758. — Male. 



Chittygong Partridge, Gen. St/n. Sup. 222. — Female. Id. Sup. ii. 278. 



SIZE of a Fowl. Bill red ; from thence to the eyes, and for 

 some space round them, naked, and red ; the head variegated black 

 and white ; neck, breast, upper part of the back, and wing coverts, 

 black, each feather marked down the shaft with a sagittal white 



* Adanson's Senegal, 8vo. p. 44. 



