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tail and quill, black brown, dots on outer web and spots on inner web of 
quills and under wing coverts, white ; bill, cestriform, culmen three 
keeled. Length 8i ; wing 4| inches; bill to gape 15, to front 13 ; tarsus 
7 1 lines. 
Description of some Partridges, (Perdix,) from India, among the 
Drawings of Gen. Hardwicke. 
Hepburns Francolin. Perdix Hephurni, male? ? female? 
Black with large white roundish spots ; head and upper part of neck pale 
brown; crown, nape, and middle of the neck black streaked ; middle of 
back, loins and rump closely black and white banded ; sides of thighs, 
quills, and larger wing coverts pale brown, black banded; secondaries ovate 
lanceolate, black with a black band between two pale brown marginal ones ; 
vent, dark red brown; legs, pale yellow; bill, black. Length 9 inches; 
' bill f ; tarsus, IJ inches. Tnhab. Odypore or Oudipore, Leut. Hepburn. 
Perdix Hephurni, var. Amongst General Hardwicke’s drawings, there 
is a second figure taken from a bird sent from the same part of India by 
the same gentleman, which differs in being all over of a pale yellow brown 
colour, rather redder and darker on the head and upper part of the neck, 
and all the parts of this specimen, which in the other bird is black, is here 
pale brown, except the band across the quills and the streaks on the neck 
which are blackish, the front of the chest is marked with a few obscured 
pale brown cross lunules and the feet are rather stronger and darker 
coloured. 
Concentric handed Francolin. Perdix Concentrica, female? Dusky 
brown ; feathers of upper part of body with a central and two arched 
white bands, parallel to the margin, often edged with darker brown, 
of the lower part of the body white, with a central and one (or rarely two) 
brown arched bands parallel to the margin; chin and sides of the face behind 
the ears white, black streaked ; ears brown, top of head and nape with 
short black bands; neck, black spotted; feathers brown, white edged; 
chest, black dotted; quills, tail, and upper tail coverts, brown and 
white banded, the tail band narrowest and whitest; legs and feet, 
yellow brown; claws black; spurs none; bill brown. Length 12; 
bill 1; tarsus, 2; middle toe and claws, 2J inches. Inhab. India. 
Description of three new species of Heron, (Ardea,) discovered hy 
General Hardwicke, in India. 
Black hilled Heron. Ardea nigrirostris. Pure white ; feathers of 
the back, and base of the throat, elongated, riged with very loose webs, 
reaching considerably beyond the tail ; bill, black ; lores, base of bill to 
beyond the nostrils and round the base of lower mandibules yellow green ; 
thighs, tarsus, feet and claws, black. Length 26 ; bill to gape, ; 
tarsus, 4^ ; middle toe and claw, 4 inches. Feathers of the neck, 6 to H ; 
of the back 12 — 13 inches long. 
Pure white Heron. Ardea modesta. Pure white ; feathers of the 
back elongated, riged with a very loose web, reaching considerably 
