278 PARTRIDGE. 



14.— GINGI PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix Gingica, Ind. Orn. ii. 648. Gin. Lin. i. 760. — Tetrao. 



Perdrix a double Hausse Col, Tern. Man. Anal. p. xciv. Id. Pig. £( Gall. 8vo. in. 440. 



La Perdrix de Gingi, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. 167. Sonn. Buf. vii. p. 55. Tab. Enc. Orn. 



p. 212. 

 Gingi Partridge, Gen. Syn. iv. 773. 



LESS than the Common Partridge. Bill black ; irides yellow ; 

 top of the head deep brown ; from the bill a white line passes over 

 the eye towards the hindhead, with a black stripe on each feather; 

 throat pale rufous ; neck and cheeks the same, streaked with black ; 

 on the breast two patches, one black, the other chestnut, separated 

 from each other by a narrower one of white; back dirty rufous grey ; 

 lesser wing coverts chestnut, edged with dirty rufous grey, with a 

 spot of the same near the tip of each ; the middle ones are chestnut 

 also, edged with dirty yellow, having a round black spot at the 

 end ; second quills much the same ; the greater blackish brown ; 

 rump and tail dirty rufous grey, with a spot of black on each 

 feather like a tare ; belly white, with two longitudinal pale chestnut 

 band on each feather; legs rufous yellow. 



The female is smaller ; crown and nape dirty grey ; throat and 

 fore part of the neck deep brown ; on the top of the breast a large 

 grey spot, undulated with black lines ; sides of the belly chestnut ; 

 belly pale rufous; sides of the breast spotted with black; wing 

 coverts dirty grey for three-fourths of the length, crossed with undu- 

 lated black lines, at the end a deep chestnut spot, with another of 

 white on each web above it; the second quills dirty grey, edged with 

 rufous yellow, and a round spot of the same on the inner web, near 

 the end ; rump and tail rufous grey, crossed with black lines ; legs 

 dirty grey. 



Inhabits Gingi, on the Coast of Coromandel. 



