﻿75*8 PARTRIDGE. 



3. Perdix bicalcarata, Zool. bid. p. zc. pi. 14. 



CEYLON P. 



Description. C I Z E not mentioned : length (in the plate) about feven inches *. 



in appearance a trifle bigger than a Quail. The bill is red 1 



from thence to the eyes, and for fome fpace round them, naked 



and red : the head variegated with black and white : neck, 



breaft, upper part pf the back, and wing coverts, black; each 



feather marked down the middle with a fagittal white ftreak : the 



lower part of the back is ferruginous : the tail rounded, brown: 



the legs red, naked, and furnifhed with two long (harp fpurs, the 



one above the other *. 



Female. The female has the head varied with black and afh-colour : 



breaft, back, and wings, rufty brown; the-feathers of the back 



and wings marked with brown in the middle, and thofe of the 



breaft margined with luteous : the tail brown : the legs without 



fpurs. 



Place. This fpecies inhabits Ceylon, being taken near Columio, in that 



ifland. The Cingalefe call it Haban-kukella. 



" The fame cannot be faid of their Partridges. I doubt much whether we ought 

 " not rather to call them Wood Hens ; for they are of the fame iize, and much 

 " about the fame colour. They are fufficiently diftinguifhed from other birds 

 " of this kind, by two ftrong fpurs to their feet." — Adanfon's Senegal, 8vo. 

 p. 44. 



* On one of the legs there appears only a Jingle fpur ; which we may fuppofe 

 owing to the miftake of the draughtsman, as the circuraftance is not elfewhere 

 mentioned. 



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