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certainly has every appearance of a gallinaceous bird. How Klein 

 and Brisson * could rank this last among his Rollers, I cannot 

 imagine, as the inspection of Seba's figure can by no means justify 

 it; nor do we at all know the bird, but through the medium of this 

 last named author. 



64 —GUIANA PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix Guianensis, hid. Orn. ;i. 650. 



dentata, Colin Tocro, Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. Svo. iii. p. 418. 



Tetrao Guianensis, Ginel. Lin. i. 767. 



Tocro, Perdrix de la Guiane, Buf. iv. 513. Id. Sonnin. vii. p. 130. Tab. Enc. Orn. 



216. No. 19. 

 L'Uru, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 334. 

 Guiana Partridge, Gen. Syn. iv. 776. Bancr. Guian. 177. 



A TRIFLE larger than the Common Partridge ; length eleven 

 inches. Bill brown ; round the eyes some red, warty excrescences ; 

 through the eye, and behind it, a pale rufous streak ; plumage 

 above rufous brown ; outer webs of the scapulars mottled with ash- 

 colour; wing coverts the same, but with a brownish tinge; back 

 cinereous brown, with blackish dots ; throat cinereous ; breast cine- 

 reous brown, with obscure paler bars ; belly pale orange brown ; 

 the outer webs of the quills spotted with rufous ; legs yellow brown. 



Inhabits Guiana and Cayenne. Buffon ranks it with the Tina- 

 mous, but his description says, it has the plumage of the Common 

 Partridge, though of a deeper brown, with the same kind of legs, 

 and a short tail. That of Dr. Bancroft is said to be twice the size of 

 ours, and he adds, that they run on the ground ; skulk among the 

 bushes, like a Quail, and when started, fly with a loud noise ; also 

 that the natives call them Mams. We learn, too, that they are not 

 uncommon at Brazil, and there called Capueiras.t 



* Ois. ii. p. 84. f Maxim. Trav. i. p. 285. 



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