356 AYES. 



lour and brownj the two middle quills of the tail much elongated 

 and terminating in a point; throat of the male, black. Found in 

 the south of France, and all round the Mediierranean.(l) 



Perdix, Briss. 

 Partridges have the tarsi naked like the toes. Among them the 



Francolinus, Tem. 



Is distinguished by a longer and stronger beak; a larger tail, and, 

 generally speaking, by stout spurs. The south of Europe produces 



one 



Tetrao francolinus, L.(2) Enl. 147, 148; Edw. 246. With red 

 feet; neck and belly of the male, black, with round white spots: 

 a bright red collar.(3) 



Some of these birds foreign to Europe are remarkable for a 

 double spur,(4) or for the naked skin of their throat.(5) In 

 others these characters are united,(6) and in certain large beak- 

 ed species the spurs are altogether wanting.(7) The 



Common Partridges 



Have a somewhat weaker beak; the spurs of the males are either 

 short, or mere simple tubercles; they are deficient in the female. 



(1) Add of those species which have filaments to the tail, Tetr. senegalus, or 

 Pterocks guitatus, Tem., Enl. 130, and the female 34:5;Pterocks exustus, Tem. 

 Col., 354 and 360: Of those whose tail is simply pointed, Tetr. arenarius. Pall., 

 Nov. Com. Petrop., XIX, pi. riii, or Pterocks arenarius. Col. 52 and So, the same 

 as the Per^Zta; arragonica, hsiih.w-Pf erodes Lichtensteinii, T. Col. 355 and 361. 

 The male o55 is at all events closely allied to the Tetr. indicus. Lath.; Sonner. II, 

 96; Pterocks coronatiis, Tem. Col. 339 and 340; Pterocks quudricinctus, Tem. or 

 Oenas bkinctus, Vieill. Galer. 220; finally the largest species, the Tetr. fasianel- 

 lus, Gm. or Long-tailed Gehnotte of Hudson's Bay, Edw. 117. 



(2) Francolino, the name of the blind made for the purpose of killing- the bird 

 whose appellation it bears, is applied in Italy to several species, such as the Geh- 

 notte and this one. 



(3) Add the Tetrao pontkerianus, Sonner. Voy. 11, 11, 165, Tem. Col. 213; 

 perlatus, Briss., pi. xxviii. A, fig. 1; Vieill. Galer. 213; the same as the madagasca- 

 rkiisis, Sonn. II, 166, pi. xcvii. 



(4) Tetrao bkakarutus, L., Enl. lor; Perdix Ckppertoni, Rupp., pi. ix, can 

 hardly be said to diff'er from lUspadiceus, Sonn. II, 169; zeilonensis, Ind. Zool. 

 pi. xiv. The Perdix cruenta, Tem. Col. 322, has three and even four spurs, and 

 bright colours foreign to the rest of the genus. 



(5) Tetrao rubicollis, Enl. 18U. 



(6) Tetrao nudicollis. 



(7) 7'etrao javunicus, Brown, 111., xvii, (a bad figure); there is a better one. 

 Col. 148, under the name oi Pedrix ujanhum, Temm. 



