308 PARTRIDGE. 



and rump striped with whitish, and long enough to hide the tail ; 

 round black spots on the outer webs of the wing feathers, and sides 

 of the belly ; otherwise differing but little. — Perhaps the male bird. 



50— AUSTRAL PARTRIDGE. 



LENGTH six inches and a half. Bill pale brown ; plumage 

 above brown, mottled with darker, and black, with a pale streak of 

 buff from the nostrils, over the eye, to the nape on each side : a 

 second, shorter, beneath the eye, but not reaching beyond it; chin 

 and throat ferruginous; back and wings marked with transverse, 

 deep buff streaks, bounded above and below with dusky; down the 

 back pale yellow streaks, as in our Quail ; on the breast much mixed 

 with deep chocolate, nearly black, and some sagittal streaks of the 

 same; quills brown; legs pale brown, three toes before, and one 

 behind. The female has the colours more dilute ; streak above the 

 eye less defined, and the one beneath wanting; the chin only dusky 

 white ; the upper parts of the body much as in the other, but less 

 mottled beneath. 



In the collection of Lord Stanley. 



51— JAVAN PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix Javanica, Lid. Orn. ii. 651. Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 184. 



Tetrao Javanicus, Gm. Lin. i. 761. 



Perdrix Ayara-han, Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. iii. 404. 



Perdrix de Java, Tab. Enc. Orn. 211. pi. 96. f. 1. 



Javan Partridge, Gen. Syn. iv. 775. Brown. III. 40. t. 17. 



IN this the forehead is orange; crown deep ash-colour, bounded 

 behind with a spot of orange ; cheeks black, with a band of orange 

 on each side, arising from the chin ; back and breast cinereous, with 



