PARTRIDGE. 303 



40— OLIVE PARTRIDGE. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill black ; head brown, mixed with 

 black ; round the eye some warty excrescences ; irides dark ; at some 

 distance round the eye bare, and crimson ; above the eye, from the 

 nostrils, down the neck, a line, the beginning of which is white, and 

 farther down ferruginous ; at some distance below each eye, a broader 

 one of white, from the base of the lower mandible ; and a broad, 

 ill defined ring, or collar of feathers, each having a large black spot, 

 surrounds the neck, being on the fore part white, behind pale ferru- 

 ginous ; the general colour of the body, tail, and wings dirty olive 

 green, changing on the breast to cinereous, and on the vent, and 

 between the thighs, to white ; on the larger wing coverts a mixture 

 of rusty brown ; the feathers on the upper part of the body mottled 

 with black, and have on each one or more large, transverse, black, 

 irregular marks ; on the sides some large white roundish spots ; the 

 quills blackish ; primaries plain ; the secondaries, on the outer web, 

 margined with rufous, mottled with black ; tail very short, the outer 

 feathers black, mottled with olive brown ; the inner olive brown, 

 mottled with black ; legs dirty red, with four toes, and no spurs 

 behind. Both sexes much alike, but in the male the colours are 

 more bright. 



Inhabits India, and is pretty common among the grass and 

 bushes in the cultivated parts of the country. A specimen, received 

 from Sylhet, answering to the above description, had the name of 

 Pah ah Teetur ; this differed only in having the edges of the mandi- 

 bles red, and the irides orange ; and said to be found only between 

 the highest hills, very rarely in the lower parts of the country. It 

 is the Burra Buttair of Hindustan ; and Buttair Calla of the 

 Mussulmans. — Communicated by Dr. Buchanan. 



