298 PARTRIDGE. 



ferruginous ; from the chin, down the middle, a dusky streak; rest of 

 the neck and breast dusky, or blackish brown, passing round the 

 lower part of the neck behind ; back and wings mixed chestnut and 

 ferruginous, the feathers here and there margined, and dashed with 

 clay-colour; lower part of the back and rump clay-colour, sprinkled 

 with brown ; tail much the same ; belly, before the legs, rufous 

 chestnut; thighs and vent white; legs dull clay-colour, rough, with 

 a short spur behind, about the middle. 



A second of these was much the same as to colour of the plumage, 

 but wanted the dusky breast. — Taken from drawings in the collec- 

 tion of Mr. Dent. Native place not mentioned. 



33— RUST-BELLIED PARTRIDGE. 



LENGTH ten inches. Bill dusky red ; head and neck black ; 

 on the under jaw a patch of ferruginous, and a bar of the same 

 across the hindhead ; chin and throat mixed with ferruginous ; back, 

 between the wings, rump, and tail, ash-colour, barred with black ; 

 breast wholly greenish ash-colour; wings mottled with ash-colour 

 and ferruginous, with some large spots of black ; quills plain 

 brownish ash-colour; belly deep ferruginous, paler between the legs; 

 sides of the vent barred clay and brown ; under tail coverts deep 

 ferruginous; legs brownish red, with no spur behind. 



We met with a specimen of this in the collection of Mr. Bullock, 

 It seems to coincide with the Dusky-breasted in many points, and as 

 it appears, from the want of spurs, to be a female, it possibly may 

 differ only in sex from that bird. 



34— RED-BILLED PARTRIDGE. 



SHAPE of a Quail; size uncertain. Bill carmine red; head 

 black ; over the eye, from the forehead to the nape, a white streak ; 



