302 PARTRIDGE. 



* * WITH FOUR TOES, WITHOUT A SPUR. 



39.— GORGET PARTRIDGE. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill dusky red ; forehead pale ash- 

 colour ; chin rufous white ; over each eye a streak of slender, minute 

 feathers, half black half white, giving a streaked appearance, con- 

 tinuing on each side lower than the nape, bordering the chestnut 

 nape, and mixing at the back of the neck ; the crown, nape, and 

 neck behind for half way, chestnut, the rest of the neck all round 

 black, the feathers bordered with rufous, or whitish, appearing as 

 streaks, and coming forwards on the throat; above the breast a broad 

 patch of black ; below this a narrow one of white ; and finally on 

 the breast a large patch of deep ferruginous;* from thence to the 

 vent pale ash-colour, streaked on the sides, under the wings, with 

 slender ferruginous lines ; middle of the back and wing coverts pale 

 ash, marked with black spots, the wing coverts also have a black 

 spot near the ends, and fringed with pale ash ; second quills brown, 

 some of them margined with rufous, the others plain ; bastard wing 

 brown ; greater quills white, the ends more or less brownish ; tail 

 very short, brown, concealed by the upper coverts, the under ones 

 black, with white tips ; legs one inch and three quarters long, toes 

 long, and slender, the middle one inch and a half long, claws pale. 



Inhabits the East Indies. — In the collection of Mr. Comyns. It 

 is a most beautiful species, and has never before come under my 

 observation. 



* Or in other words, the neck and breast are ferruginous, divided by a line of white. 



