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PLUMED PARTRIDGE. 
large. On tlie top of the head are two linear-lanceolate, decurvcd feathers, 
having their webs deflected, and three inches and three-quarters long, in the 
midst of a tuft of smaller feathers. Wings short, convex, much rounded, 
the fourth quill longest, the third and fifth scarcely shorter, the second 
four-twelfths shorter than the third, and five-twelfths longer than the 
second. Tail rather short, much rounded, of twelve feathers. 
Bill black, “ iris red,” feet dull yellow, claws brown. The upper part of 
the head, the hind neck, the fore part of the back, the lower part of the fore 
neck, and part of the breast, greyish-blue ; the feathers round the base of the 
bill white ; the elongated feathers on the head black, the throat bright chest- 
nut, margined on each side by a black line, succeeded by a band of white an 
inch and a half in length, passing downwards from the eye. The back and 
rump are reddish-brown, the quills and tail-feathers wood -brown, margined 
with reddish-brown, the inner secondaries broadly margined internally 
with white. The middle of the breast bright chestnut, as are the upper 
hypochondria! feathers, which are margined on their inner web toward the 
end with a narrow black, and a broad white band, the intervening space 
on the sides broadly banded with white, black, and brownish-red. 
Length to end of tail 11 inches; bill along the ridge along the edge 
of lower -mandible T V ; wing from flexure 5! ; tail 3s ; tarsus 1 ^ ; hind 
toe fj-, its claw -j% ; middle toe f|, its claw ,V 
Adult Female. 
The female, which is somewhat less, is similar to the male, but less brightly 
coloured. The elongated feathers on the head are much shorter, being 
about two inches long. The middle and hind part of the back, the wings, 
and the tail, arc very minutely and rather faintly undulated with dusky. 
Otherwise the difference in the colouring is not very remarkable. 
Length to end of tail 10 inches ; bill along the ridge T L ; wing from flexure 
5* ; tail 82 ; tarsus IfV ; hind toe T V, its claw ^ : middle toe ff, its claw T ® ? . 
