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eafily by the fowlers. That it rolls in the duft, brings 

 many young, and feeds on feeds. 



We are forry to own our fmall acquaintance with 

 the zoology of Attica, confidering the various op- 

 portunities our countrymen have had of informing 

 themfelves of it. We therefore cannot pronounce, 

 that the attagas ftill exifts on the plains of Mara- 

 thon-, but we difcover it in Samos, an ifland of Ionia 9 

 a country celebrated by the antients for produ- 

 cing the fined kinds : 



Inter fapores fertur alitum primus 

 lonicarum guftus attagenarum, 



Is the opinion of Martial*-, and Horace 'f, and 

 Pliny £, both fpeak of it with applaufe. bourne- 

 fort § has given us the figure of the bird ltfelf, 

 which he found in the marjhes of Samos, whofe 

 painted and fpotted plumage exactly anfwers the 

 defcriptions of Ariftophanes and Athen^us. It is of 

 the partridge genus, and known to the Italians 

 by the name of Francolino. Thofe who wiih to fee 

 it in its proper colors, and to be fatisfied how well 

 they agree with the defcriptions of the antients, 

 need only confult the 246th plate of the works of 

 our ingenious friend the late Mr. Edwards. 



* zpig. Lib. xrn. Ep. 61. 



f Epod. II. 



% Lib. X. c. 48. 



§ Voy. Vol. I. 311. 4/0. ed. 



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