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DENDRORTYX BARBATUS.

Bearded Partridge.

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Head slightly crested, the feathers of which are dark brown; forehead brownish buff: stripe
above and behind the eye, throat and sides of the neck leaden grey ; mantle deep rich
chestnut, each feather edged with grey; upper surface mingled brown, black and buff,
presenting a very sparkling appearance; primaries reddish brown, mottled and freckled
with dark brown; tail dark chestnut-brown, the four central feathers strongly marked with
black and buff, assuming the form of broad bars; the outer feathers slightly freckled with
black ; chest uniform bright orange-brown; flanks olive-grey, with a chestnut mark down
the centre, and with an oblique spot of white on the margin, bounded posteriorly with
black ; under tail-coverts sandy brown, with a crescent-shaped mark of a lighter hue at
the extremity ; bill, orbits and feet red.

Total length, 121 inches ; Az//, 2; wing, 61; tail, 41; tarsz, 21; middle toe and nail, 2.

Perdix barbatus, Licht. in Mus. Berlin.

 

For our first knowledge of the existence of this species we are indebted to the discrimination of Professor
Lichtenstein of Berlin, in the Royal Museum of which city specimens are deposited. With a liberality only

equalled by his kindness, M. Lichtenstein permitted me to bring this and other rare birds to London, for the

purpose of figuring them in my Monograph.

The Bearded Partridge belongs to that section of the family of which the Dendrortyx macrourus is the
type; it equals that bird in size, and may be regarded as one of the finest of the Odontophorine ; it differs
coloured crest, and in having a shorter and squarer tail; its

chiefly in having a shorter and more uniformly
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modifications of structure which evidently

toes are also rather more lengthened and its claws straighter ;
ally it to the members of the restricted genus Odontophorus.
Habitat. Jalappa in Mexico.

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