EYED PARTRIDGE. 



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longitudinal pale chesnut bands on each feather : 

 rump and tail dirty grey, each feather with a 

 small rounded black spot : legs reddish yellow. 

 The female is less : the top and hind part of the 

 head are dirty grey : throat and fore-part of the 

 neck deep brown : on the top of the breast is a 

 large grey spot, the feathers of which it is com- 

 posed being undulated with black lines : sides of 

 the breast spotted with black : the wing-coverts 

 are dirty grey for three-fourths of their length, 

 crossed by undulated black lines, with a deep 

 chesnut spot at the end of each, and one of white 

 on each web above it : the secondary quills dirty 

 grey, edged with rufous yellow, and a round spot 

 of .the same near the tip of the inner web : the 

 sides of the belly chesnut : the belly itself pale 

 rufous : the rump and tail-feathers rufous grey, 

 imdulated with black lines : the feet are dirty 

 grey : the beak is black, and the irides are yellow. 



Inhabits the neighbourhood of Gingi, on the 

 coast of Coromandel. 



EYED PARTRIDGE. 

 (Perdix oculea.) 



p£. capite collo pectore ventreque Icete riifis, dorso siqjcnie tranS' 

 vershn albo-Jiigroque striatOj uropygio atro maculis triayign- 

 laribiis castancis^ alarum tectricibiis cinereo'olivaceis nigro ma^ 

 culatis. 



V. XI, P. 11. 24 



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