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THE PAIKTED PARTRIDGJi. 
acr09s» and a line along the patches, tliose at the end 
have the extremity with a hlack mai^ln. The up- 
per part of the l»ack and wingn deep brown, with 
round ^ptits of yettowhli white^ and with the luargiiis 
of the leathers wood-brown; the lou'er part of the 
hack au<l runip tranifvcrftely burred wit}j black and 
white ; quillH barred with hair-brown and pale red- 
dial i-orange ; upper tail-eoverts brown, delicately 
waved witli irregular bars of black and white. Tail 
brown ish-blaek, with narrow white ban^ principally 
at the ba^e of the feather.^ ; vent and under tail co- 
verts deep orange-brown. 
