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(Perdrix cinerea.) 
THE forehead and throat is of a rust-red colour; 
the neck, breast, and sides are grey, with very fine 
zigzag lines of black ; the sides are barred with chest- 
nut brown; in the middle of the breast is a patch of 
deep chesnut-colour in the form of a horse-shoe; the 
upper parts are ash-brown, barred and speckled with 
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