336 PARTRIDGE. 



dusky ; upper tail coverts banded black, and dull, pale rufous ; the 

 quills reach three-fourths on the tail, which is barred with dusky 

 black, and brownish yellow, and the end of the latter colour ; legs 

 covered with pale, dusky, yellowish down, spotted with red brown ; 

 toes three in number, all forwards, claws small and sharp. 



The female has the crown as in the male, but darker ; sides of 

 the head clay-colour; sides of the neck clay, marked with small 

 round dusky spots ; the rest of the neck, breast, and beginning of 

 the back clay-colour, crossed with numerous dusky lines; the bar 

 of white on the breast wanting; but all from thence beneath slaty 

 grey, transversely banded with black ; back and wings pale rufous 

 red, barred with numerous dusky lines; the wing coverts not differing 

 from the rest; but the greater, and second quills tipped with pale 

 yellow; greater quills, tail, and legs, as in the other. 



Inhabits India, and called Rock Pigeon, from its frequenting 

 rocky situations. 



77 —GIBRALTAR QUAIL. 



Perdix Gibraltarica, Jnd. Orn. ii. 656. 



Hemipodius lunatus, Turnix a croissants, Tern. Man. 315. Id.Ed.1A, v. iii. p. 496. 



Id. Pig. $ Gall. 8vo. iii. 629. 

 Tetrao Gibraltaricus, Gm.Lin.). 766. 

 Gibraltar Quail, Gen. Syn. iv. 790. 



LENGTH six inches and a half. Bill black ; irides white ; 

 crown chestnut brown, fringed with white ; back the same, barred 

 with black; wing coverts rusty brown, in the middle of each a black 

 spot, surrounded with white, which also ends the feathers ; chin and 

 throat barred black and dusky white; breast white, with a crescent 

 of black on each feather, but down the middle pale rust-colour ; 

 there is likewise a mixture of this last with the black ; belly, sides, 

 and vent, paler, inclining to yellow; quills and tail dusky, the last 

 short, striated with rufous brown and black ; fringed with white ; 

 legs pale. 



