296 PARTRIDGE. 



breast before pale greenish ash-colour ; belly buff, with transverse 

 bands of black, bounded behind with chocolate brown ; vent and 

 thighs pale ash ; rump and tail darker ash ; ends of some of the 

 outer feathers and under tail coverts rufous. This is called Chuckar, 

 or Mountain Partridge. Native of the Mountains of Sirinagur, and 

 other parts of India, also at Futtehguhr. 



29.— RUFOUS-BREASTED PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix petrosa, hid. Orn. ii. 648. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. p. 487. 



Tetrao petrosus, Gm. Lin. i. 758. 



Perdrix de roche, ou de la Gambra, Buf. ii. 446. Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. iii. p. 368. 



Rufous-breasted Partridge, Gen. Syn. iv. 771. 



THIS is said to be smaller than the last described, but in shape 

 like it; and has also a red bill, eyes, and legs. Plumage in general 

 dull brown ; on the breast a spot the colour of Spanish snuff. 



Found about the River Gambia, in rocky and mountainous 

 situations; runs very fast, at which time it bends the tail greatly 

 downwards. The flesh is reckoned excellent. 



M. Temminck joins the synonyms of this with the Barbary 

 Species. 



30.— BUFF-BREASTED PARTRIDGE. 



LENGTH ten inches. Bill pale ; round the eye bare ; head and 

 neck covered with small pointed brown feathers, margined with 

 white ; the neck, breast, and sides, the same, but the feathers are 

 ferruginous, with three or four white spots on each web; the middle 

 of the breast rufous buff-colour; wings brown, mottled with dusky 

 white ; back and tail brown, powdered with pale dots ; quills rufous 

 brown ; vent and under the tail coverts dark brown, the last much 

 rounded at the end ; legs red, without a spur. 



