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T ENGTH thirteen inches. Bill an inch and a quarter : the 

 upper mandible much fornicated, and hangs over the lower;, 

 the colour brown : the top of the head is deep brown ; each fea- 

 ther margined and firiped with cream-colour : fides of the neck 

 rufty cream-colour, tipped with dufky : over each eye an elegant 

 flripe, minutely dotted with black and white : chin, and fore part 

 of the neck, marked in the fame elegant manner : the upper 

 part of the body brown, croffed with narrow lines of dufky 

 cream-colour, and marked down each fhaft like the back of a 

 Quail i the breaft and fides are mottled with ferruginous, chefnut,, 

 dufky, and dirty white; but the middle of the belly marked only 

 with the two laft : the quills are dufky : the tail deeper,, crofied 

 with white lines : the legs are furnifhed with a fhort thick fpur,. 

 and are of a brown colour. 



This was fent from the Cape of Good Hope to Sir Jofeph Banks. 

 It is a moft beautiful fpecies. 



Var. A. 

 Description* 



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La Perdrix de Gingi, Son. Voy. Ind. vol. ii. p. 167. 



f ESS than the Common Partridge. Bill black : irides yellow : 

 top of the head deep brown : from the bill a white line 

 paffes over the eye almoft to the hind head ; each feather which 

 forms this line has a ftripe of black on it r the throat is pale 

 rufous : neck and cheeks the fame, with a longitudinal ftreak of 

 black on each feather : on the breaft are two fpots, one black, 

 the other chefnut, feparated from each other by a white one : 

 back dirty rufous grey : kffer wing coverts chefnut, edged with- 



dirty 



16. 

 GINGI P. 



Description!, 



