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THE PAINTED PARTRIDGE. 
across, and a line along the patches, those at the end 
have the extremity with a black margin. The 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 barred 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 tbe base of the feathers ; vent and under tail co- 
verts deep orange-brown. 
