TlED=THROATED PARTRIDGE. 



spot of black at their tips, which i^; rounded' in 

 some, and oblong in the others ; the whole are 

 tipped with chesnut-red : the quills are grey- 

 brown : the lower part of the neck and the breast 

 are lead-colour : the belly, the feathers of the sides, 

 the thighs, the abdomen, and the under tail-feathers, 

 are deep red : the beak is black, reddish at the 

 tip : the irides are grey : the feet are bright red : 

 the claws are straight, and very long : the tail is 

 hidden by its upper coverts, and is greyisli blue, 

 undulated with black. 



Native of the plains and mountains of Java, 



RED-THROATEE> PARTRIDGE. 

 (Perdix gularis.) 



Pe. vertice nuchaque J^usca-olivaceis, Jascid infra supraqiie oculos 

 alba, gutture rufo ; peciore venlreque strigis longitudinalibus 

 fiiveis, corpore supra fusco^ rachis pennarum omnium albis^ 

 remigum rachis atris* 



Partridge with the crown and nape fuscous-olive j a fascia 

 above and beneath the eyes white ; the throat rufous j the 

 breast and belly with longitudinal white spots } the body 

 beneath brown ; the shafts of all the feathers white, but 

 those of the quills dusky. 



Perdix gularis. Temm, GalL Ind. p. 731. 



Perdrix a gorge rousse. Temm. Pig, et Gall, 3. p. 401. 



Native of India : it is described by Temminck : 

 ito total length is rather below twelve inches : it has 



