PERDIX PERSONATA. 
Ord. IV™ Les Gallinaces, Cuvier. 
Ord. XV™ Gallinaces, Temminck. 
Ord. V. Gallinje, Linn, Syst. 
Ord. IV. IIasores, Illiger. Fam. 20, Gallinacei. 
rERDIX, Briss. Lath. Cuv. Temm. Illig. <$c. 
Tetrao. Linn. 
Char. Gen. — Rostrum breve, crassiusculurn, compressiusculum, basi nudum, maxilla 
fornicata, convexa, subadunca, mandibular gonyde recta porrecta. Nares basales, 
laterales, squama fornicali superne semiclausa?, antice implumes. Lingua carnosa, 
integra, apiee acuta. Caput plumatum ; circa oculos seepius macula; implumes 
verrucosa?. Alee breves; remigibus tribus exterioribus gradatim brevioribus, 
quarta et quinta, vel saepius quinta, longioribus. Cauda brevis, deflexa, rectri- 
cibus densis. Pedes tetradaetyli, insidentes, mediocres, congrui, nudi. Tarsus 
maris calcaratus, rarius tuberosus aut muticus. Tarsotheca clypeato-scutulata. 
AcrodacUjla scutulata* Hallux digito intcrno plus dimidio brevior. Ungues 
faleulares, paululum incurvati, acutiusculi. Illiger, Temminck. 
Perdix supra fusca subtus cinereo-fuscescens, gula collo antice et ad latera lineaque 
superciliari albis, pileo colloque postice et torque collari nigris, alis abdomine 
crissoque maculis transversis lunulatis nigris et castaneis. 
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* Perdix orientalis, Horsf Syst. Arrangement of Birds from Java, Linn, Trans. 
Vol. XIIL p. 165. 
THE Perdix pcrsonata, which is represented in our Plate of natural size, agrees 
with the Perdix javanica in the general contour of the body, in the shortness of the 
