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white spots ; lower part of the back and rump black, with numerous 

 transverse lines of white ; wings much as in the Common Fran col in ; 

 tail black, crossed with lines of white ; thighs and vent dull ferru- 

 ginous, with transverse lines of black; legs orange, with a blunt 

 spur, just above the hind claw. 



Inhabits India. — General Hardwicke. Called at Cawnpore 

 Black Partridge. 



One, supposed a female, had the head, neck, and under parts, 

 more or less brownish ash-colour; sides of the head pale dull ferru- 

 ginous ; on the ears a cinereous patch ; upper parts as in the male, 

 but less bright; beneath crossed with short streaks of dusky black ; 

 tail as in the male. 



9.— LEONA PARTRIDGE. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill stout, dusky, the upper mandible 

 bent, hanging over the lower ; top of the head, above the eyes, and 

 nape olive brown ; over the eye, from the nostrils, a line, composed 

 of black and white feathers ; under the eye, from the gape, a large 

 patch of fine pale grey; chin and throat black; round the eyes bare; 

 the whole neck and breast black, marked with cordated white spots, 

 from each feather having a spot near the end, and a second about the 

 middle, but the latter, when the feathers lie smooth, is not visible : 

 lower part of the neck and breast mottled brown, with a narrow stripe 

 of white down the shaft of each feather ; most of the wing coverts 

 marked in the same manner; bastard wing and prime quills dusky; 

 the second quills mottled on the outer webs ; lower part of the back, 

 rump, and tail mottled brown, but more inclined to yellowish ; tail 

 short, rounded, and not greatly differing in colour ; middle of the 

 belly, and vent, as the breast, with some stripes of white on the 

 side feathers, over the thighs ; legs reddish brown, with the claws, 



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