320 PARTRIDGE. 



brown, or chestnut; hind part of the neck paler, and dashed with 

 white lines; the feathers of the back and wings marked with three 

 or four transverse, black, curved streaks, some like crescents, and a 

 whitish line down the middle of the shafts; the chin and throat are 

 white; from the nostrils a black streak, curving upwards under the 

 eye, at a little distance from it; chin black, forming a triangle, and 

 continuing in a curved streak, joining the end of the first at the back 

 part ; the white on the throat bounded below with a third bent 

 black streak, curving in the direction of the second, but not joined 

 to it ; legs yellow. 



The other, called a female, is pale reddish ash, inclined to red on 

 the crown, and the ash-colour deepest on the upper parts; marked, 

 both above and beneath, with broadish spots of black of different 

 sizes, most above ; but the head to below the eye, the lower belly, 

 and vent plain ; beneath the eye, at a little distance, a short, curved 

 crescent of black ; on the back, here and there, some white lines ; 

 some of the outer wing feathers barred with black ; the bill and legs 

 as in the other. 



Inhabits India. — Sir J. Anstruther. 



B. — Allied to this is one five inches and a half long. The bill 

 blackish; crown deep brown, with short, yellow streaks; over the 

 eye, from the nostrils, a white streak, ending at the nape in clay- 

 colour ; through the eye one of reddish brown ; the chin and throat 

 white, with three narrow curved marks ; one from the gape, passing 

 a little beneath the eye ; a second across the throat, making a 

 crescent, and curving to the end of the first ; and a third below, 

 parallel to the second ; back and wings olive brown, with darker 

 markings, and streaks of yellow, as in the Common Quail ; beneath, 

 from the throat, ferruginous blossom-colour; breast plain, the rest 

 with streaks of black down the middle of each feather ; the legs are 

 pale flesh-colour. 



