PARTRIDGE. 331 



* ** WITH FOUR TOES, CLAW OF THE HIND ONE WANTING. 



73 —CROWNED PARTRIDGE— Pl. cxxx. 



MALE. 



Columba cristata, Ind. Orn. ii. 596. Gm. Lin. i. 774. 



Perdix coronata, Ind. Orn. Sup. lxii. 



Tetrao Porphyrio, Nat. Misc. pi. 84. 



Phasianus cristatus, Mus. Carls, iii. t. 64. 



Tetrao viridis, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 222. — male and female. 



Le Roloul de Malacca, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. 174. pi. 100. 



Uncommon bird from Malacca, Phil. Trans, lxii. p. 1. pi. 1. 



Cryptonyx coronatus, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. xciv. Id. Pig. ty Gall. 8vo. iii. 526. 



Lesser crowned Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. 622. 623. pi. 58. 



Violaceous Partridge, Nat. Misc. iii. pi. 84. 



Crowned Partridge, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 278. 



FEMALE. 



Perdix viridis, Ind. Orn. ii. 650. 



Tetrao viridis, Ind. Orn. ii. 650. Gm. Lin. i. 761. 



Cailleverte, Tab. Enc. Orn. 219. pi. 95. f. 4. 



Green Partridge, Gen. Syn. iv. 777. pi. 57. Id. Sup. ii. 278. 



SIZE of a small Pigeon ; length about ten inches. Bill above 

 black ; beneath orange ; nostrils oblong ; irides pale brown ; eyelids 

 margined with a broad, crenated, naked, orange skin ; behind each 

 eye an orange, triangular, naked space; plumage in general black, 

 with various glosses of violet and green ; head and neck velvet black; 

 across the crown, between the eyes, a band of white; behind which 

 rises a semicircular sort of crest, compressed on the sides, and con- 

 sisting of many feathers, of a very loose texture, of a reddish or 

 chestnut brown ; on the forehead spring several long bristles, from 



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