Bonham's Partridge. 



Perdix Bonhami, Fraser, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843, p. 70. 



This species of Partridge is nearly allied to the Perdix Heyi of Temminck, but may be 

 readily distinguished from that bird by the black stripes about the head of the male, and by 

 the more mottled appearance of the female. Several living examples were procured at Tehran, 

 in Persia, by Edward W. Bonham, Esq., H.M. Agent at Tabreez, and were subsequently presented 

 to the Society by that gentleman. 



The general colour is sandy yellow; the scapularies, secondaries, and upper tail-coverts are 

 mottled with dusky black; the feathers of the neck, forming a collar, are dusky black, each 

 feather having a triangular spot of yellowish white near the centre; frontal and superciliary 

 stripes, black; lores and ear-coverts, yellowish white; below the ear-coverts is a black line; the 

 flank feathers are broadly edged with black; the tail, is red; and the bill and feet are horn 

 colour. 



Total length, ten inches. 



