340 PARTRIDGE. 



black ; quills brown ; the three or four outer ones edged with white; 

 tail like the upper parts of the body ; legs cinereous ; the hind toe 

 wanting. — Inhabits Madagascar. 



A. — Bill and legs pale ash-colour; head and upper parts of the 

 body fine pale reddish clay-brown ; the head darker than the rest ; 

 a!l marked with white streaks in several series; beneath dusky ash, 

 marked with small, transverse, curved black streaks; down the 

 middle of the breast, from the chin, a black streak. 



The other sex has the head darker, with fewer white spots, and 

 no black streak down the middle of the throat. 



Inhabits India, and called Hoonkeah. It is probably a Variety 

 of the Madagascar, or Black-necked Species. — Sir J. Anstruther. 



81.— DUBKEE QUAIL. 



LENGTH under five inches. Bill pale ; head mottled whitish 

 and ash-colour ; all round the neck and sides ferruginous ; down the 

 middle from the chin, paler ferruginous ; the rest of the upper parts 

 fine pale ash-colour, varied with paler spots, inclining to rufous ; 

 under parts cinereous clay-colour, marked on the sides of the breast 

 with round black spots of several sizes ; greater wing coverts and 

 second quills pale clay-colour, spotted with black, some of them 

 kidney-shaped ; greater quills and tail plain dusky ; legs yellow, 

 with three toes only, all placed forwards. 



Inhabits India, called Dubkee. — Sir J. Anstruther. 



A. — Bill and legs yellow; plumage in general pale grey, crossed 

 with fine black lines; lower part of the neck behind inclined to 



