334 PARTRIDGE. 



74.—CAMBAIAN PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix Cambaiensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 655. 



Cryptonyx rufus, Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. iii. 534. 



Cambaian Partridge, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 282. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill short, stout, pale, tip dusky; body 

 yellowish rufous above, paler beneath, clouded with a deeper colour, 

 inclining to brown ; wing coverts tipped with a paler rufous, giving 

 the appearance of two bands across the wing; legs yellow, hind toe 

 without a claw. 



Inhabits India, about Guzurat. — A specimen in the British 

 Museum. 



75— MALACCA PARTRIDGE. 



Tetrao ocellatus, Burong Trong, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 322 ? 



LENGTH seven inches and a half, Bill one inch, dusky; head, 

 neck, and beneath, deep ferruginous ; the two first plain, but the 

 breast and sides are varied with broad, black, transverse marks, 

 somewhat curved ; upper half of the back black, with an angular, 

 pale, yellow band on each feather, like a narrow crescent ; the rest 

 of the back also covered with black feathers, with an elongated, 

 ferruginous crescent on each, continuing to the end of the tail, and 

 hiding it ; lower belly and vent pale brown ; wings brown, the lesser 

 coverts plain, the rest blotched with black, roundish, spots, one near 

 the tip of each feather; greater quills and tail plain brown; legs 

 like those of the Common Partridge, the hind toe placed high up, 

 and without a claw ; at the back part of the leg, above this, a short 

 blunt knob. 



