PARTRIDGE. 317 



C. — La Caille blanche, Buf. ii. 476. Arist. de Colorib. cap. vii. 



This Variety is wholly white, as mentioned by Aristotle. We 

 have likewise heard of a similar circumstance, but have not seen the 

 subject. 



58— EASTERN QUAIL. 



LENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill palish horn-colour; sides 

 of the head, round the eye, granulated, bare, red, and elongated 

 behind ; the head, and whole of the neck, dull rufous, the margins 

 of the feathers pale ; middle of the breast plain rufous white ; from 

 thence to the vent much like the head and neck in colour, but the 

 vent and thighs are white ; back chocolate, each feather dotted and 

 margined with white ; the rest of the back and wings rufous brown ; 

 tail the same ; quills dusky; legs red. 



Inhabits the East Indies. — In the Leverian Museum. 



Similar to this, is one, with a reddish bill, round the eye bare 

 and red, continuing in a space behind ; head white, a little mottled 

 with dusky ; the whole neck rufous, most of the feathers with white 

 margins ; breast wholly white; from thence to the vent as the neck ; 

 back, wings, and tail, much the same, but rather darker ; the tail 

 tending to a point ; legs red, with a hind toe, but no spur. 



Native place uncertain, having only seen this in drawings. 



59— CALID QUAIL. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill dusky ; round the eye bare and 

 red ; head and neck pale brown, the feathers tinged with rufous, 

 and marked with whitish spots on the sides, which are more 



