74 



PARTRIDGE. Class II, 



mond to the naked mountain of Scarohen in Cath- 

 ?fs^ the ifle of Arran, many of the HebrideSy 



and the Orknies, 



Mt* 



With naked legs. 



06, Part- La Perdris grlfe ou Gouache. La Perdrix grife. Brijfon av, 

 RIDGE. Belon a-o. 257. 1. 219. 



Perdix (Waldhun) Ge/her av. PL Enl 27. Hift. d'Oys. IL 



669. 401. 



Perdix minor five cinerea. Starna. Zinan, 30. 



Aldr, a'v. II. 66. Agcrhoene. Br. 20 1. 



Wil. orn. 166. Rebhun. Kram. 357. 



Rail Jyn. a^v. 57. Rebhuhn. Frifchy 1. 114. 



Tetrao Perdrix. Lin.fyft. 276. ^r. ZW. 86. plate M. 



Rapphona. Faun, Suec. /p. Serebitza Scopoli, No. 175. 



205, 



Descrip. / I "^HE male partridge weighs near fifteen oun- 

 \ ces ; the female near two ounces lefs : the 

 length to the end of the tail thirteen inches •, the 

 breadth twenty. The bill is whitifh : the crown 

 of the head is brown fpotted with reddiih white : 

 behind each eye is a naked red fkin. The chin, 

 cheeks and forehead of a deep orange color, 

 but in the females much paler than in the other 

 fex. The neck and bread are prettily marked 

 with narrow undulated lines of afh-color and 

 black ; and in the hind part of the neck is a ftrong 

 mixture of ruft color : on the bread of the male is 



a broad 



