PARTRIDGE. 307 



This is a most elegant species, which I have met with in two or 

 three collections, and especially in that of Lord Stanley. I could 

 not learn from whence it came, but suspect it to be allied to the New- 

 Holland Species. 



49— HACKLED PARTRIDGE. -Pl. cxxix. 



Peidix ferruginea, Ind. Om. ii. 651. 



Perdrix a Camail, Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. iii. 416. 



Tetrao ferrugineus, Gm. Lin. i. 761. 



Caille verte, Tab. Enc. Om. 218. pl. 96. f. 1 . 



La grande Caille de la Chine, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. 171. 



Hackled Partridge, Gen. Syn. iv. 766. pl. lxvi. 



LENGTH twelve inches. Bill like that of a Partridge, but 

 longer, brown, with a black tip ; the crown of the head dusky and 

 ferruginous mixed ; on the nape, and hind part of the neck, the 

 feathers are one inch and a half long; black brown in the middle, and 

 rather glossy ; the shafts and margins all round yellowish buff-colour, 

 and pointed at the ends, which, when erected, appear like those on 

 the neck of the Ruffed Heath Cock, and are narrower and shorter 

 in proportion, as they are nearer to the head ; the upper parts of the 

 body are ferruginous brown, minutely dotted with black; feathers 

 on the wing coverts, and back streaked with pale yellowish buff; 

 quills plain brown, the edges only being dotted with black ; the tail 

 brown black, the three outer feathers plain, the others dotted black 

 on the outer edge ; fore part and sides of the neck ferruginous, a 

 little mottled with paler colour, shafts pale ; breast plain red brown; 

 belly the same, but less deep; vent dusky ; legs brown, two inches 

 and a half long; claws pale. 



A specimen of the above was in the Leverian Museum, supposed 

 to inhabit the Cape of Good Hope. M. Sonnerat's bird came from 

 China ; he describes it with the irides red ; the feathers of the back 



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