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DENDRORTYX LEUCOPHRYS, Gowa.
White-eyebrowed Partridge.

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lata castanea sengulis plumis ornatis.

Face and a broad stripe over the eye buffy white ; ear-coverts and crown of the head brown ;
feathers of the sides and back of the neck rich chestnut, margined on each side with white ;
feathers of the upper part of the back rich chestnut, margined with slate-grey ; breast
grey, with a stripe of reddish chestnut in the centre of each feather; back dark greyish
brown, very minutely freckled with black; wings brown, freckled with buff and black ;
primaries deep rust-red ; tail dark brown, freckled with buff and black; irides clear brown ;
feet red; bill black.

Total length, 131 inches; bell, +; wing, 71; tal, 6; tarst, 23; middle toe and nail, 12.

Ortyx leucophrys, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part XI. p. 132.

 

Tuis fine species is a trifle smaller than Dendrortyx macrourus, from which it is distinguished by the conspi-
cuous stripe of white which surmounts the eyes.

Three examples are all that have come under my notice ; one of which is in the collection at the Jardin
des Plantes at Paris, and the other two in the possession of the Earl of Derby; of the latter one is now
living in his Lordship’s aviary ; the other, a mounted specimen, has been kindly lent me by his Lordship for
illustration in the present monograph.

Habitat. The southern portion of Mexico. The specimen from which my figure was taken was received
direct from Coban.

The Plate represents the bird of the natural size.

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