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dirty rufous grey, and a fpot of the fame near the tip of each • 

 the middle ones are chefnut alfo, edged with dirty yellow, with 

 a round fpot of black at the end of each : fecond quills much 

 the fame ; greater ones blaekilh brown : rump and tail dirty 

 rufous grey, with a fpot of black on each feather in the mape 

 of a Tare : belly white, with two longitudinal pale chefnut bands 

 on each feather : legs rufous yellow. 

 Female. The female is fmaller. The top and hind part of the head dirty 



grey : throat, and fore part of the neck, deep brown : on the 

 top of the breaft a large grey fpot, all the feathers of which are 

 undulated with lines of black : fides of the belly chefnut : the 

 belly itfelf pale rufous : fides of the breaft fpotted with black : 

 the wing coverts dirty grey for three-fourths of their length, 

 crofled by undulated black lines ; at the end a deep chefnut fpot, 

 with a fpot of white on each web above it : the fecond quills 

 dirty grey, edged with rufous yellow, and a round fpot of the 

 fame on the inner web near the end : rump and tail rufous grey, 

 crolTed with black lines : legs dirty grey. 



This fpecies is found in the neighbourhood of Gingi, on the 

 coaft of Coromandel. 



Place. 



17. La Perdrix de Pondichery, Sen. Voy. Ind. ii. p. 165. 



PONDICHERRY 



P. 



Description. 



C I Z E of the Common Partridge. Bill dufky : irides red : top 

 of the head dull rufous grey : round the bill yellowifh : 

 throat the fame ; the lower feathers tipped with black : hind part 

 of the neck greyifh, banded with black ; the lower part of it, and 

 the back, rufous, banded with white : breaft pale rufous, undu- 

 lated with black : belly white, crofied with femicircular black 



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