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bands •, fides of it fpotted with rufous red : lefler quills much 

 the fame, banded with rufous white ; the greater of a very deep 

 dirty grey: rump grey, crofied with dirty white bands, bordered, 

 with black lines on each fide : the two middle tail feathers 

 rufous, crofied with numerous zig-zag lines of brown, and four 

 yellowifh white bands on each ; the reft of the feathers bright 

 brownifh red, banded on the inner webs with black : the male 

 has a very ftrong fpur. 



Inhabits the coaft of Coromandel. Placf. 



Javan Partridge, Brown. Illuft. p. 40. pi. 17. 18. 



JAVA P. 



HP HE forehead of this bird is orange : crown deep afh-colour, Description, 



bounded behind with an orange fpot: cheeks black, bounded 

 on each fide by a band of orange rifing from each fide of the 

 chin: back and breaft cinereous, marked with dufky femilunar 

 fpots : wing coverts, fcapulars, and fecondaries, black and ci- 

 nereous, edged with yellow : primaries grey, edged with black : 

 tail cinereous, with femilunar marks of black : belly dull orange : 

 vent red, crofied with a band of afh-colour and black : legs flefh- 

 colour. 



Inhabits the ifiand of Java. Place. 



LaPerdrixde Montagne du Mexiq-ue, Brif. orir. 1. p* 226. 3. 10, 



Le Rollier du Mexique, Brif. or*, ii. p. 84. N° 10. MEXICAN P. 



Ococolin, feu Perdix montana, Hemand. — Rait Sjn. p. 57. 1. — Buf. cif. ii, 

 p. 489. — Seta, i. p. 100. pi. 64. f. l. 



JPHIS is much larger than the Common Partridge: length Description. 

 twenty-one inches. Bill pale red ; irides black : general 



colour 



