276 PARTRIDGE. 



12— PEARLED PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix perlata, Ind. Orn. ii. 648. 



Tetrao perlatus, Gin. Lin. i. 750. 



Perdix Sinensis, Bris.'u 234. t. 2S, A. 1. Id. Svo. i. 65. Spa/owsk.Yi. t.31. 



Perdrix perlee de la Chine, Buf. ii. 446. Id. Sonnin. vi. p. 47. 



Tetrao Sinensis, Osb. Voy. ii. 326. 



Francolin perle, Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. Svo. iii. p. 326. 



Pearled Partridge, Gen. Syn.'w. 772. 



A LITTLE bigger than the Common Partridge ; length twelve 

 inches and a half. Bill blackish, nearly an inch long; irides hazel ; 

 over the eye a rufous stripe ; from the nostrils, through the eye, a 

 broader one of black, and beneath them a white one; also, a fourth 

 of black, in the direction of the under jaw ; the crown of the head 

 brown, minutely spotted with white I chin and throat white; neck, 

 breast, belly, sides, and vent brown, marked with round spots of 

 rufous and white ; back and rump barred rufous and brown ; quills 

 brownish, crossed with arcuated white bands; tail brown, transversely 

 streaked and tipped with black ; legs rufous, and in the male a spur 

 behind. 



Inhabits China ; drawn from the life by M. Poivre ; called by the 

 Chinese, Tche-cou. Probably the same which Osbeck mentions, and 

 which he says, the Chinese of quality make use of, as well as the 

 Common Quail, to warm their hands in winter. This seems much 

 allied, if not the same with the Pintado Partridge. 



It is with great uncertainty that we so fully describe the four last 

 species, all of which have, more or less, several markings of the 

 Francolin : and as we do not learn the exact changes, which this bird 

 goes through before it gains the complete plumage, it is possible that 

 they may be more allied than is conjectured. 



