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white band, mixed with grey and black : the back, rumpj tail, 

 and leffer wing coverts, are rufous, inclining to yellow, croffed 

 with femicircular black marks : the fecondaries dirty grey half 

 way, the reft of the length croffed with four tranfverfe bands, the 

 firft of which is black, the fecond white, the third black, and the 

 fourth rufous yellow j the primaries brownifh black : beneath the 

 wings grey : belly dirty grey, croffed with tranfverfe black bands: 

 legs brown. 



This fpecies is found on the coaft of Coromandel, where it is Flacb. 



called Caille de la Chine. 



With THREE TOES. 



Tetrao paradoxa, Pall. Trav. vol. ii. j>. 712.25. t. F, HETEROCLITE 



GR. 

 '"pHE bill in this fpecies is more flender than is ufual in the Description. 



Grous kind ; the upper mandible not fornicated, nor receiv- 

 ing the lower : the head and neck, as far as the throat, hoary ; 

 but the chin is yellowilh : on each fide of the neck is an orange 

 fpot : round the throat a circular ftreak, compofed of numerous 

 tranfverfe, flender, black lines : the back, between the wings, and 

 quite to the tail, undulated with black and grey, as in the Buf- 

 tard: the breaft is of a pale reddifh alh-colour : beyond this, to 

 the vent, black, marked with pale fpots : the baftard wing is un- 

 dulated with black, and marked with large brownifh blood- 

 coloured fpots at the tips of the feathers : the prime wing co- 

 verts and fecond quills are rufty white, marked with a broadifh 

 trace of black, parallel to the fhaft, quite to the tip : prime quills 

 Vol. II. 5 D brown, 



