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ii. 



HACKLED P. ^ a Grande Caille de la Chine, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. p. 171. 



Pl. LXVI. Lev - Mu f- 



Description. T ENGTH twelve inches. Bill like that of a Partridge, 

 but longer; the colour brown; tip black: crown of the 

 head dufky and ferruginous minutely mixed : on the nape and 

 hind part of the neck the feathers are one inch and a half long ; 

 the middle part of them black brown, rather glofly ; the {hafts 

 and margins all round of a yellowifh buff-colour, and pointed at 

 the ends ; which, when they are ere<5ted by the bird, appear like 

 thofe on the neck of the Ruffed Heath Cock ; thefe feathers are 

 narrower, and fhorter in proportion, as they are neareft the head : 

 the upper parts of the body are ferruginous brown, minutely 

 dotted with black : the feathers on the wing coverts and back 

 ftreaked with pale yellowifh buff: quills plain brown, the edges 

 only being dotted with black : tail brown black; the three outer 

 feathers plain, the others dotted with black on the outer edge : fore 

 part and fides of the neck ferruginous, a little mottled with paler 

 colour ; the fhafts pale : breaft plain red brown : belly the fame, 

 but paler : vent dufky : legs brown ; two inches and a half long ; 

 claws paleft. 



In the Leverian Mufeum. Suppofed to come from the Cape of 

 Place, Good Hope. Sonnerat's bird came from China. He defcribes it as 



having the irides red : the feathers of the back and rump ftriped 

 with whitifh, and long enough to hide the tail: round black fpots 

 on the outer webs of the wing feathers and on the fides of the 

 belly : otherwife it differs very little. It is probably the male 

 bird. 



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