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THE SANGUrN'E PABTRIDOE. 
willi black upon the fiides, whl\e the legs, feet, anil 
lull are ftriglil red. The tail, rump, and f^econtlartes, 
again, Rliew the beimtiful delicate IjariSnf^ seen in 
lUme parts of the common francolin and painted par- 
tridge. 
There is a smal) Indian group among the partridg^es 
whidi alpo deserves notice. Tlie wings are more 
ample and rounded, the tail sliort, the body more 
rlutnsy ; the bill and legs strotn?, and tlie feet largt?. 
They inhabit principally thi^ Indian islands, fretjuent- 
ing the skirts of the numntain forests. The Perdix 
Jat?fln?Va of Latlianrt, Perdix vtegapodia, Temmiiickf 
and Perdix personata^ HorsfieSd, are examples of 
this iijvm, Anollier form we noticed before was 
the pheasant-like partridges of Africa, eo similar to 
the fi-niales of these birds, that, with the addition of 
the tail, they might be passed off to an ordinary ob- 
server. Perdix hicalcarata of Lattiam will exemplify 
this. To these perhaps might aUo he added anollier 
remarkable bird, the itackled partridge of Latham, of 
which there seems an uncertainty regard! 0}^ its na- 
tive country. Dr Latham's bird was in the Leverian 
Museum, ami was supposed to have come from the 
Cape of Good Hope ; wliile Teniminck, upon the au- 
thority of Soimerat, makes it a native of Eastern 
Asia. The most remarkable feature in the plumage 
<»fthis otlierwise soberly dressed bird is in the feathers 
on the back and sides of the neck and upper part of 
the back being of an inch and half long, and liackle- 
sbaped, as in the common cock, and in their colour 
