82 THE PAINTED PARTRIDGE. 
across, and a line along the paid tes, those at the end 
have the extremity with a black margin. Tbe up* 
per part of the back and wings deep brown, with 
round spots of yellowish white, and with the margins 
of the feathers wood -brown; the lower part of the 
back and rump transversely barred with black and 
white ; quills haired with hair-brown and pale red- 
dish-orange ; upper tail- coverts brown, delicately 
waved with irregular bars of black and white. Tail 
brownish-black, with narrow white bars, principally 
at the base of the feathers ; vent and under tail co- 
verts deep orange-brown. 
