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THE SANGUINE PARTRIDGE. 
with black upon the jsitlefs, while the legs, feet, and 
bill are bright red. The tail, rump, and secondaries, 
again, si lew the beautiful delicate barring seen in 
those parts of the common fram'd in and painted par- 
tridge. 
There is a small Indian group among the partridges 
whifli also deserves notice. The wings are more 
ample and rounded, the tail short, the body more 
clumsy ; the bill ami legs strong, and the feel large. 
They inhabit principally the Indian islands, frequent- 
ing the skirts of the mountain forests. The Perdix 
JavmnCft of Lai ham, Perdix mega podia, Tens mi i irk, 
and Perdix persomta % Horsheld, are examples of 
tins form. Another form we no tired before was 
the phea*ant-Hk« partridges of Africa, so similar to 
the females of these lords, that, with the addition of 
the tail, they might he passed ofF to an ordinary ob- 
server, Perdix bicalcar ata of Latham will exemplify 
this. To these perhaps might also he added another 
remarkable bird, the hackled partridge of Latham, of 
whidi there seems an uncertainty regarding its na- 
tive country. Dr Lathams bird was in the Lever ian 
Museum, and was supposed to have come from tbe 
Cape of Good Hope; while Temminck, upon the au- 
tbority of Sumierat, makes it a native of Eastern 
Asia. Tbe most remarkable feature in tbe plumage 
of this otherwise soberly dressed bird is in tbe feathers 
on tbe back and sides of tbe neck ami upper part of 
tbe buck being of an inch and half lung, and hackle- 
shnpeil, as in tbe common cock, and in their colour 
