Plate CCCCXXII. Fig. 1. Male. Fig. 2. Female.
On the top of the head two linear-lanceolate decurved feathers, having
their webs deflected; upper part of head, hind neck, fore part of
back, lower part of fore neck, and a part of the breast, greyish-blue;
feathers along the base of the bill, and a band from the eye down the
side of the neck, white; elongated feathers on the head black; throat
deep chestnut, margined on each side with a black line; back and rump
reddish-brown; quills and tail-feathers wood-brown, margined with
reddish-brown; inner secondaries broadly margined internally with
white; middle of breast chestnut, as are the upper hypochondrial
feathers, which are margined on their inner web toward the end with a
narrow black and a broad white band, the intervening space on the
sides broadly banded with white, black, and chestnut. Female somewhat
less, similar to the male, but less brightly coloured.
_Male_, 11, wing 5-3/4. _Female_, 10, wing 5-1/2.
Columbia River, and Upper California. Rather rare. Migratory.
Plumed Partridge, Perdix plumifera, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p.
226.