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bird : the legs are pale brown, feathered on the fore part as the 

 laft, and the hind toe fmall, and placed above the heel. 

 'Place. This inhabits Senegal, and feems a variety of the laft- 



defcribed. 



I have feen two fpecimens, both of which differed only in hav- 

 ing a rufous band on the breaft, and the colours, though exactly 

 the fame, much duller than in the Planches Enluminees. 



NAMAQUA GR. 



lDbicription. T ESS than a. Partridge: length nine inches*. Bill dufky blue: 

 head, neck, and breaft, cinereous grey, verging to rufous 

 about the fides of the head and throat : on the upper part of the 

 breaft a narrow crefcent of white ; beneath this a broader one of 

 chocolate-brown ; from thence to the thighs a very deep afti- 

 colour, almoft black: lower belly, thighs, and vent, pale cine- 

 reous white : back and upper parts chocolate brown, the margins 

 of the feathers darkeft : lefTer wing coverts white, margined with 

 chocolate ■, the greater ones of this laft colour, paler at the ends ; 

 the tip of each feather marked with a blueifh fpot : quills dufky ; 

 the tips of the fecondaries white within, and the ftiafts of the 

 .greater white : tail very cuneiform; the two middle feathers pointed 

 as in the Pin-tailed Grous ; all the others tipped with white : legs 

 feathered on the fore part to the toes, of a blueifh afh-colour, 

 and furniftied with a fmall fpur behind, placed inwards : the toes 

 black. 

 ;Femaxb« Xhe female has the head and neck as in the male, a little 



ftreaked with black : the upper parts of the body tefiellated with 

 -black, white, and rufous : belly tranfverfely ftriated with black 

 and white : in other things as in the male, except that the legs 

 are deftitute of fpurs. 



* It is of that fize and length in the drawing. 



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