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THE KYAH OR SWAMP PARTRIDGE. 



THE PLATE is most unsatisfactory. The birds are neither well 

 drawn nor correctly coloured. The throat patch is really a rusty 

 ferruginous ; the back is brown, barred with buff, and exhibits 

 no trace of the red tinge which the artist has introduced. The 

 bird has not red eyes ; there is no red about them so far as I 

 know. The broad pale centres of the feathers of the lower 

 parts should be less closely set, and should be very pale buffy 

 white, and these are really margined first with blackish brown, 

 then with a clear moderately light brown, all of which is ignored 

 in the plate. Lastly, there is no reason to believe that these 

 birds deliberately stand about in the water like waders. 



Our two species are the only known ones of the genus. 



