Bonham’s Partridge. 
Perdix Bonhami , Fraser, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843, p. 70. 
This species of Partridge is nearly allied to the Perdix Heyi of Temminck, but may be 
readily distinguished from that bird by the black stripes about the head of the male, and by 
the more mottled appearance of the female. Several living examples were procured at Tehran, 
in Persia, by Edward W. Bonham, Esq., H. M. Agent at Tabreez, and were subsequently presented 
to the Society by that gentleman. 
The general colour is sandy yellow; the scapularies, secondaries, and upper tail-coverts are 
mottled with dusky black; the feathers of the neck, forming a collar, are dusky black, each 
feather having a triangular spot of yellowish white near the centre; frontal and superciliary 
stripes, black; lores and ear-coverts, yellowish white; below the ear-coverts is a black line; the 
flank feathers are broadly edged with black; the tail, is red; and the bill and feet are horn 
colour. 
Total length, ten inches. 
