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EYED PARTRIDGE. 



Partridge with the head, neck, breast, and belly, deep rufous ) 

 the back above transversely striated with white and black ; 

 the rump dusky, with triangular chesnut spots ; the wing- 

 coverts olive-grey, spotted with black. 



Perdix oculea. Temm. GalL Ind. p. 732. 



Perdrix oculee. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. /?. 408. 



Eleven inches in length : the head, the neck, 

 the breast, and the belly, are clothed with fine 

 chesnut-red feathers : the sides of the breast and 

 of the body with transverse black stripes: the 

 feathers of the thighs are deep chesnut-red, tipped 

 with a round black spot : the upper part of the 

 back is striped transversely with white, on a black 

 ground : the middle of the back to the upper tail- 

 coverts is deep velvety black, each feather adorned 

 with a lanceolate spot of a bright chesnut hue : 

 the feathers of the tail are dusky brown, edged 

 with paler brown : the wing-coverts are deep 

 olive-grey, each feather with a black spot, more 

 or less rounded in shape : the quills and the se- 

 condaries are deep brown, the latter edged with 

 chesnut : the abdomen is white : the beak and 

 the feet are brown. 



Inhabits India, 



