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THE SANGUINE PARTRIDGE. 
with black upon the sides, while the legs, feet, and 
bill are bright red. The tail, rump, and secondaries, 
again, shew the beautiful delicate barring seen in 
those parts of the common francolin and painted par- 
tridge. 
There is a small Indian group among the partridges 
which also deserves notice. The wings are more 
ample and rounded, the tail sliort, the body more 
clumsy ; the bill and legs strong, and the feet large. 
They inhabit principally the Indian islands, frequent- 
ing the skirts of the mountain forests. The Perdix 
Javanica of Latham, Perdix megapodia, Temminck, 
and Perdix personata, Horsfield, are examples of 
this form. Another form we noticed before was 
the pheasant-like partridges of Africa, so similar to 
the females of these birds, that, with the addition of 
the tail, they might be passed off to an ordinary ob- 
server. Perdix bicalcarala of Latham will exemplify 
this. To these perhaps might also be added another 
remarkable bird, the hackled partridge of Latham, of 
which there seems an uncertainty regarding its na- 
tive country. Dr Latham's bird was in the Leverian 
Museum, and was supposed to have come from the 
Cape of Good Hope ; while Temminck, upon the au- 
thority of Sonnerat, makes it a native of Eastern 
Asia. The most remarkable feature in the plumage 
of this othernnse soberly dressed bird is in the feathers 
on the back and sides of the neck and upper part of 
the back being of an inch and half long, and hackle- 
shaped, as in the common cock, and in their colour 
