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GINGI PARTRIDGE. 



Jascia pectorali alba et castanea. (Femina corpore supra fuS" 

 cescente, subtus rufescente-albo, ?tigro-maculato ; pectore cinereo, 

 nigro-striato.) 



Partridge with the body above grey-brown, beneath white ; the 

 sides cinereous, variegated with chesnut spots ; the crown 

 chesnut ; the eyebrows white ; breast with a white and 

 chesnut fascia. {Female with the body above brownish^ be- 

 neath reddish white, spotted with black ; the breast cinereous, 

 striated with black.) 



Perdix gingica. Lath'. Ind, Orn. 2. 648. 17. — Temm, Gall, Ind. 

 p. 733. 



Tetrao gingicus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 76O. 41. 



La Perdrix de Gingi. Sonner. Voy, Ind. 2. 167- 



Perdrix ^ double hausse-col. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. p- 410. 



Gingi Partridge. Lath. Ge?i. Syn, 4. p. 773. 16. 



This, which is the smallest of the genus, was 

 discovered by Sonnerat, who, as is usual with him, 

 has not given any account of its manners, of which 

 we are still ignorant : the beak of the male is 

 black : the irides yellow : top of the head deep 

 brown : from the beak, passing over the eye to 

 the occiput, is a white stripe, each feather having 

 a black line upon it : the throat, neck, and cheeks, 

 are pale rufous, each feather of the two latter 

 with a longitudinal black streak : back dirty rufous 

 grey: lesser wing-coverts chesnut, fringed with 

 dull red-grey, with a spot of the same near the 

 tip ; the middle ones chesnut, edged with dirty 

 yellow ; each with a round black spot at their tip : 

 greater quills dusky brown ; secondaries similar to 

 the middle coverts : on the breast are two spots, 

 one of black and one of chesnut, separated from 

 each other by a white patch : belly white, with two 



