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THE SANGUINE PARTEIDGE. 
Perdix cruentat%ts~^*T n^ntmcK. 
PLATE VIL 
I'hiiflijmiis crucntatuXf Trans, of Lin. Soc, vtA, %n\, ji. 237. 
— Sanguitie Phea»ii)Jt» Jjoth, (ieneral //w/ory, p. 2lOJi, — 
Francftlin cusanglniite, Perdix crucntata, Tejaminck^ PL 
This bird also Ijeon plfitrd among tlie Fran- 
colim, ofi arrount of ttie spurjiid tHrsj, bat it m pro- 
bable it will MHDit ultimately a-s gome suhgejtua^ hi>\M^ 
one of those bints wbicb an? nlniost ndtber one tbing 
ti or another. It formi; the connexion in Rome poinia 
Ijetwflen the present family am] ibp PartHiitlfe. Tlie 
reinarkable parts of stnictture are tin; lengtbeni:'i:l 
form of the feathers of the heail and n^^rk, iKe bril- 
liant tints of the plumage, and, like the polyptftctron, 
Itaviag sometimes one, two* or tbree spurs upon ibe 
tarsi, whit-h are ifieroBeWt's more slender and length- 
ened than ilioi^e of mo^t of the otherif. It inbabir» 
the upper pans of the unexplored districts of Nepau!, 
and adds another to the many splendid and pe en liar 
gallinaceous birds, whirh are tfiere so abundant. 
It was first described in the Transactions of the 
