280 PARTRIDGE. 



Le Perdrix de Pondichery, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. 165. Sonnin. Buf. vii. p. 53. Tub. Etic. 



Orn. p. 211. 

 PondiHierry Partridge, Gen. Syn. iv. 774. 



SIZE of the Common Partridge. Bill dusky red, paler at the 

 point ; irides red ; top of the head dull rufous grey ; round the bill 

 yellowish ; throat the same, lower feathers tipped with black ; hind 

 part of the neck greyish, banded with black ; lower part and back 

 rufous, banded with white ; the breast pale rufous, undulated with 

 black ; belly white, crossed with semicircular bands of black, spotted 

 on the sides with rufous red; lesser quills much the same, banded 

 with rufous white ; the greater very deep dirty grey ; rump grey, 

 crossed with dirty white bands, bordered on each side with black 

 lines; the two middle tail feathers rufous, marked with numerous 

 transverse, zigzag, brown lines, and four yellowish white bands on 

 each ; the rest bright brownish red, banded on the inner webs with 

 black ; at the hind part of the leg a very strong spur. 



In the female the plumage is less bright, with a tubercle on the 

 legs instead of a spur. 



Inhabits the Coast of Coromandel. 



A. — Pondicherry Partridge, Gen. Syn. Sup. 221. 



Length ten inches. Bill black ; chin, round the eye, and beneath 

 it yellow ; the rest of the head, neck, and breast pale brownish white, 

 with large roundish black spots ; a bar of narrow black and white 

 lines divides the middle of the breast; beneath it white; the belly 

 brown, marked with short, transverse bars of black ; back whitish 

 brown, with narrow, transverse dashes of the same, pointed at each 

 end ; prime quills black at the tips ; the tail reddish, clay-coloured 

 brown, crossed with nine or ten oblique black bars ; the tips of the 

 feathers white ; legs very pale before, the hind part and toes black ; 

 hind claw very small ; legs not furnished with spiKr. 



