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HACKLED PARTRIDGE. 



(Perdix ferruginea.) 



Pe. rufo^fuscai dor so tectricibusque alarum lineis longitudinalibus 

 JlavescentibuSj pennis colli superiore angustis elongatis ; apice 



acutiSf lined in medio marginequejlavis. 

 Red-brown Partridge, with the back and wing-coverts with 



longitudinal yellowish lines ; the feathers on the upper part 



of the neck elongated and narrow, their tips acute, with a 



line in the middle, and their edges yellow. 

 Perdix ferruginea. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 651. 26. — Temm, GalL 



Ind. p. 733. 



Tetrao ferrugineus. Gmel. Syst. Nat, 1. 76I. 44. 

 La grand Caille de la Chine. Sonner. Voy. Ind, 2. 171. 

 Perdrix a camail. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. 41 6. 

 Hackled Partridge. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 766. 11. pi. 66. 



The Hackled Partridge is figured, and thus 

 described, by Latham : " Length twelve inches : 

 beak brown ; tip black : crown of the head dusky 

 and ferruginous minutely mixed : on the nape 

 and hind part of the neck the feathers are one inch 

 and a half long ; the middle part of them black- 

 brown, rather glossy ; the shafts and margins all 

 round of a yellowish buff-colour, and pointed at 

 the ends, which, when they are erected by the 

 bird, appear like those on the neck of the Ruffed 

 Heathcock ; these feathers are narrower and shorter 

 in proportion as they are nearest the head: the 

 upper parts of the body are ferruginous brown, 

 minutely dotted witli black : the feathers on the 



