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the chin and throat white, curving towards the neck, and growing 

 broader, ends in a square manner behind ; the general colour of the 

 neck, breast, back, rump, and tail fine reddish ash, marked with 

 black spots, smallest on the neck and breast ; from the last to the 

 vent fine pale rufous red ; marked on the sides with large kidney- 

 shaped, or crescent-like, black spots, margined with white; the tail 

 somewhat longer than the wings, barred with pale ash-colour; legs 

 fine red, like carmine ; the back toe furnished with a claw, the size 

 of that of the middle one ; about half way up the leg a spur. 



The female has the head, sides, and throat dull pale yellowish 

 brown, margined with a dusky line : middle of the crown and upper 

 parts of the body not greatly differing from the male, but with fewer 

 black spots : it may be observed, that the pale yellowish brown 

 begins on the forehead, and surrounds the eye, above which it is 

 prolonged in a broad streak as far as the nape ; and the part 

 surrounding the eye extends down on each side of the throat. 



Inhabits India; called Lava Surra. 



35.— WOOD PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix gularis, Perdrix a gorge rousse, Tern. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. iii. 401. female. 



SIZE of the Red Species ; length fifteen inches. Bill black ; 

 irides very dark brown ; orbits covered with feathers ; plumage in 

 general brown ; above the eye a broad white stripe, and beneath it 

 another, which reaches from the bill to the neck ; chin and throat 

 rufous; upper part of the body, wings, and tail coverts tranversely 

 barred with pale, rust-coloured lines, each margined with black; on 

 the breast, belly, and sides, the feathers have each a longitudinal, 

 sharp-pointed, white line, in like manner margined with black ; the 

 lower belly and vent white; under wing and tail coverts pale ferru- 

 ginous; the wings reach to the end of the rump; prime quills rufous, 

 with black tips, the inner barred like the back ; between the bars 



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