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Zoological Miscellany . 
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Goura Bunting, Emberiza Lathami, n. s. Goura Finch, Lath. 
Hist. Black ; feathers grey edged, the abdominal feather broadest 
edged; head with a crest of several long linear feathers ; upper and 
under wing coverts, quill and tail feather, (except at the tips,) bright 
red bay ; bill and feet horn-coloured. Length inches. 
Female or Young . Brown; paler beneath; middle of feathers black 
brown ; sides blackish ; chin whitish ; wing and tail feathers black 
brown ; outer edge of wing coverts, quill and outer tail feathers, inner 
web of quills, nearly to the top, and band down the shaft of two outer 
tail feathers on each side, bright red bay; under wing covert bay; bill 
and feet brown. Inhab. China and India. 
Pale Goat Sucker. Caprimulgus pallidus, n. s. Black brown, 
minutely punctated with pale ash, spotted with bay ; abdomen pale bay, 
black banded; vent rufous; outer quill black brown, spot on inner web 
of outer, and band across second, third, and fourth quill, and under 
wing coverts pale bay ; inner primaries, secondaries and bastard wing 
bay and black banded ; tail slightly rounded, outer feathers pale bay, 
middle ones black dotted. Length 10 J inches ; tail 4 inches ; bill 1 inch, 
1 line. Inhab. China, Mr. Reeves. India, Dr. Horsfidd. 
Wedge-tailed Partridge. Perdix sphenura, n. s. Blue grey vermi- 
culated and speckled with black; chin, ears, sides of neck, throat and 
abdomen, bay; sides and epigastrum black spotted; wing coverts and 
scapulars white speckled and chestnut spotted ; secondaries irregularly 
white banded; outer ones black tipped; tail long, wedge-shaped, ob- 
scurely banded ; quills brown ; bill and feet dark. Length 1 1 inches. 
Inhab. China. 
Chinese Francolin. Perdix f Francolinus J maculatus. Black 
with round white spots ; loins, rump and tail black, white cross-banded; 
top of head, nape, scapulars, tips of back feathers, and under tail 
coverts, chestnut; middle of crown brown, feathers pale edged; chin, 
upper part of throat and sides of face white, with a band over the eyes, 
and another from the angle of the mouth to under the ears black ; bill, 
black ; feet yellow ; spurs blunt. Length 1 2 inches. Inhab. China. 
Chinese Dunlin. Tririga ( PelidnaJ Chinensis. Bill, slightly 
bent down, rather longer than the head, black. Ash-coloured, feathers, 
white edged ; crown and back of neck, brown ash, white streaked ; 
chin, pure white ; under wing coverts, rump, and beneath, white ; front 
and side of neck, chest, and sides of body and rump, ash spotted ; wing 
and tail feathers, ash, with narrow white edges ; tail quite even ; legs, 
dark green. Length 10 J inches. 
Asiatic Snipe. Scolopax Horsfieldii, n. s. Scol. gallinago, Horsf. 
and Raffles. Exactly like the Common Snipe (ScoL gallinago, PI. Enl. 
t. 883,) in size and plumage; but on each side of the tail there are a 
series of small ridged filiform arched feathers not found in the European 
species. Inhab. China, J. Reeves, Esq. India, Dr. Horsfield. 
