PARTRIDGE. 301 



merous; throat pale dirty grey ; forepart of the neck, breast, and 

 belly, the same, with two bands of black on each feather, parallel 

 to the margin all round ; back, rump, wings, and tail, pale dirty 

 grey, crossed with black bands; greater quills brown; legs black. 

 Inhabits Madagascar. 



A. — Bill dusky ; head rufous, marbled at top with brown ; over 

 the eye a dusky white streak ; through the eye, from the bill, and 

 the body above, brown, with pale, obscure, undulated bands ; legs 

 flesh-colour, with a kind of knob, or small spur, very high up, near 

 the bend. 



The female is not unlike the male, but paler, especially about the 

 head ; the general colour pale reddish ash ; the clay-coloured mark- 

 ings less distinct, and mixed with a few marks of black. 



Inhabits India, and called Callera Lava. — Sir J. Anstruther. 



38.— EYED PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix oculea, Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. iii. 408. 



LENGTH about ten inches. Bill one inch, brown ; region of 

 the eyes clothed with feathers; head, neck, breast, and belly, gilded 

 rufous, marked on the sides of the breast and flanks with transverse 

 bands of black ; thighs chestnut, with round black spots ; back 

 black, banded with white ; lower part and upper tail coverts velvet 

 black, with a lance-shaped spot of bright rufous ; tail dusky brown, 

 edged with paler brown ; wing coverts deep cinereous olive, with a 

 roundish spot of black on each ; quills deep brown, but the secon- 

 daries have chestnut edges ; legs brown, at the back part a callous 

 knob. The female has much the same plumage, but with smooth 

 legs. — Inhabits India. 



