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44— CHESTNUT-BELLIED PARTRIDGE. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill moderate, black ; irides reddish ; 

 plumage above deep brown, mixed with black, and dashed with 

 white down the shafts of the feathers ; back brown, the feathers 

 marked with white down the middle ; sides of the head and beneath 

 bluish slate-colour ; under the eye, the chin, and throat, black ; on 

 each jaw a patch of white, and beneath it a crescent of white, sur- 

 rounding the throat; middle of the breast, and all down the middle 

 of the belly, vent, and thighs, chestnut red; wings brown ; greater 

 quills plain brown; inner quills the same, blotched with black; tail 

 coverts long, hiding the tail ; legs yellow, claws black. ~a 



Inhabits New South Wales. 



45— UNDULATED PARTRIDGE. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. Bill short, dusky ; crown very 

 dark ; general colour of the plumage above brown, the middle of 

 the feathers dusky, and a white streak down the shafts ; on the fore- 

 head, over the eye, a broad pale rufous red streak ; under parts of 

 the body undulated, pale rufous brown, striated across with dusky 

 black bars ; belly and thighs nearly plain ; chin and throat rufous 

 white, the chin palest; the tail coverts long, hiding the tail. 



Inhabits New-Holland ; met with about New South Wales. 



46— DWARF PARTRIDGE. 



LENGTH four inches to the rump. Bill pale, upper ridge 

 brown; plumage in general olive-brown, each feather irregularly 

 barred across with dusky black ; and on near inspection appearing 



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