Dips - RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE. 
Male; length, one foot one and a half to one foot two 
inches; bill, bright red; a black band runs from its base to 
the eye and down the neck, widening towards the front, 
where both sides meet, and from it numerous black spots and 
streaks descend towards the breast; iris, reddish orange; eyelids, 
red; over the eye is a bare red space, and a white line runs 
over it. Forehead, grey; sides of the head, white, tinged with 
grey; crown, neck on the back, and nape, reddish brown; on 
the sides, greyish white, tinged with brown and spotted with 
black, margined with greyish brown, and followed by a broad 
band of ash-colour; chin, white; throat, white, tinged with 
grey; breast, light yellowish red; on the sides are broad bands 
of red, followed by others of grey, white, black, and reddish 
yellow; below, it is clear rufous; back, reddish brown, tinged 
with grey. | 
The wings, very short, extending to the width of one foot 
nine inches, have the second, third, and fourth quills nearly 
equal, and the longest, the first nearly as long as the sixth; 
greater and lesser wing coverts, reddish brown, tinged with 
ervey; the primaries, greyish black, and, except the first, with 
part of the outer webs yellowish brown; seven of the second- 
aries have also part of the outer web dull yellow; they too 
are greyish black, as are the tertiaries. The tail, of sixteen 
feathers, has the four middle ones reddish brown, tinged 
with grey, the others brownish red; upper tail coverts, 
reddish brown, tinged with grey; under tail coverts, light 
yellowish red. Legs, with a blunt spur, and toes, bright 
red; on the first are five, on the second sixteen, on the 
third twenty-two, and on the fourth eighteen narrow plates; 
claws, dusky brown. 
Female; length, one foot one inch; the crescent on the 
weck is narrower, and pale, and the spots on its lower part 
much smaller; the legs, light yellowish brown, have no spur. 
