322 PARTRIDGE. 



62— ORIENTAL QUAIL. 



Perdix orientalis, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 184. 



THIS is twelve inches long. Bill black; plumage brownish 

 ash-colour, marked with black crescents, margined with chestnut ; 

 crown, orbits, and a collar round the neck, black; the rest of the 

 head and neck white ; belly ash-colour, marked with crescents of 

 black ; legs reddish, or flesh-colour. 



Inhabits Java. 



63— MEXICAN PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix naevia, Ind. Orn. ii. 649. 



Tetrao naevius, Gin. Lin. i. 760. 



Perdix montana Mexicana, Bris. i. 226. 3. Id. Svo. i. 63. 



Ococolin, Raii, 57. 1. Biif. ii. 489. Fernand. Hisp. 32. cap. Ixxxv. 



Mexican Partridge, Gen. Si/n. iv. 775. 



THIS is larger than the Common Partridge. Bill and legs pale 

 red ; plumage wholly brown, pale, and fulvous ; wings above dark 

 coloured, marked distinctly with white and fulvous spots, as well on 

 the head and neck as elsewhere. 



Inhabits Mexico, by the name of Ococolin, and said to be 

 twenty-one inches long ; but we have another Ococolin mentioned 

 by Seba,* and said to be as big as a Crow, with the feathers of the 

 nape lengthened into a pendent crest; the bill reddish, short, and 

 thick, as in the Partridge; eyes bright, the eyelids sanguineous; 

 plumage wholly green, blue, gilded, and glossy ; wings pale 

 purple; the rest black ; thigh feathers long; legs short and thick, 

 with long claws : of this there is a figure in Seba, answering in size 

 to his description, with a cuneiform tail, of a moderate length, and 



* Vol. i. 100. t. 64. 1. 



