BUFF-BREASTED PARTRIDGE. 221 
tlie following manner : tlie feathers upon the neck, 
throat, breast, interscapulars, and sides of the body, 
have a row of white spots down the middle of each 
neb, bordering a stripe of rufous which occupies the 
middle of each feather ; these spots (which are 
most distinct and defined on the interscapulars and 
sides of the body) are bordered above by a line of 
obscure black ; the spots become indistinct and run 
into each other on the breast, so as to form stripes. 
The cliiq. and part of the throat is dirty-white, each 
feather being nearly black in the middle. On the 
fore part of the body, immediately beneath the breast, 
is a large patch of pure fulvous or buff-yellow. All 
the rest of the plumage is dark brown, without any 
other variation than very minute and scarcely per- 
ceptible freckles of a paler colour : the quill and 
tail-feathers are without any bands or spots, but 
there are a few white dots on the wing-covers, and 
obsolete undulations on the flanks ; bill, orbits, and 
legs, light, probably red in the live bird ; tail very 
broad and rounded. 
Total length about 10 inches; bill, from the 
gape, t 7 5 ; wings, 4' 3 ; tail, from the base, 3£ ; tar- 
sus, 1. 
