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fetrao cinereus, L.; Enl. 27; Frisch, 114; Naum. 1st Ed. pi. 

 3, f. 3. (The Grey Partridge.) Beak and feet ash colouredj head 

 fawn coloured; the plunaage of various shades of grey; a maronne 

 spot on the breast of the male. This common bird, which con- 

 stitutes so important an item in the luxuries of the tables of Eu- 

 ropeans, lives and builds in their fields. 



Tetr. rufus^'L.; Enl. 150. (The Red Partridge.) Beak and feet 

 red; brown above; flanks speckled with red and cinereous; throat 

 white, surrounded with black; prefers the hills and rising 

 grounds. The flesh is white and dry. The south of France 

 produces 



Perdix grseca, Briss.; Per. saxatilis, Meyer; La Bartavelle, 

 Enl. 231; Frisch. 116. Which only differs from the Red Par- 

 tridge in its superior size and more ash coloured plumage. It 

 is found along the great mountain ranges. (1) 



COTURNIX. 



Quails are smaller than Partridges, with a slenderer beak and 

 shorter tail; no red eye-brow nor spurs. Every one knows 



Tetrao coturnix, L.; Enl. 170; Frisch, 117; Naum. 4, f. 4. 

 (The Common Quail.) Back brown, waved with black; a point- 

 ed white stripe on each feather; throat brown, eyebrows whitish; 

 Found in the fields of Europe, and celebrated for its migrations; 

 during which this heavy bird finds means to cross the Mediter- 

 ranean. (2) The 



Partridges and Quails of America 



Have a stouter, shorter, and more convex beak; the tail is some- 

 what larger.(3) They perch on bushes, and, when disturbed, even 

 on trees. Several of them migrate like the Quails of Europe. 



(1) Add the Bed Partridge of Barbary, a very distinct species, {Tetr. petrosus, 

 Gm.) Edw., 70; the Perdrix de montaigne, [7^etrao montanus), Enl. 136, Frisch. 

 114, B, is only, according to Bonnelli, a variety of the Grey Partridge; the Perdrix 

 de haye. Tern. Col. 328 and 329; Perd. personata, Horsf. Jav. ; Perd. d gorge 

 rousse [Perd. gularis, T.); Perd. oculea. Id.; Perd.fusca, Vieill. Gal. 212. 



(2) Add the j>e<tYe Caille de la Chine [Tetr. chinensis, L.), Enl. 126, F, 2, of 

 which the Tetr. manillensis, Gm., Sonner. Voy. I, pi. xxiv, is the female; the 

 Caille australe [Perd. australis, T.), Vieill., Galer. 215; the Caille nattee [Perd. 

 lextilis, Temm.), Col. 35; the Tetr. coromandelicus, Sonner. U, 172; T. striatus, 

 Sonner., II, pi. xcxviii, and Temm. Col. 82, very diflTerent from that of Lath. Syn. 

 II, pi. Ixvi; the Pedrix de gingi[Tetr. gingicus), Sonner. II, p. 167, also appears 

 to belong to this subgenus. 



(3) Among the species, the size of tlie Partridge, we may remark the Tocro, or 

 Perdrix de la Guiane, Buff. [Tetr. guyancnsis, Gm.) ox Perd. dentata, Tern, or 



