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point. They are gregarious, granivorous, and, being extremely 

 numerous, often inflict great injury on the crops. The genus 

 belongs to America, and, with others, is part of the extensive 

 family of the Icterinae, to which systematic writers have 

 assigned different stations in their arrangements. 



The "Red-wing," or "Red-winged Starling," of North 

 America, is about nine inches in length ; its plumage glossy 

 black, the smaller wing-coverts scarlet, their first row yellow, 

 at the tip whitish. The female is much smaller, with the 

 upper parts dark brown ; some of the smaller wing-coverts 

 tinged with red ; wings and tail blackish-brown, the feathers 

 margined with brownish-red, the first row of small coverts 

 and secondary coverts narrowly tipped with whitish ; a 

 yellowish -brown band over the eye ; lower parts longitudi- 

 nally streaked with dusky and whitish ; the fore-neck tinged 

 with dull carmine. 



Very abundant in North America, by the ornithologists 

 of which country its habits have been fully and pleasantly 

 described. In vol. I. of the Zoologist, the Rev. Richard 

 Lubbock informs us that a male, said to have been accom- 

 panied by another, was shot near Rollesby Broad, Yarmouth, 

 and came into the possession of J. H. Gurney, Esq., in a 

 fresh state, in June 1842. Mr. Yarrell mentions another 

 individual shot among the reeds at Shepherd's Bush, a 

 swampy situation about three miles west of London, on the 

 Uxbridge Road. 



11. Perdix petrosa. Barbary Partridge. This species 

 has been admitted into the British Fauna, because an indi- 

 vidual was found dead at Edmondthorpe, about six miles 

 from Melton Mowbray, in Leicestershire, in April 1842. 

 Mr. Yarrell has figured and described this specimen, it 

 having been lent him by Mr. Thomas Goatley, of Chipping 

 Norton, Oxfordshire. 



The Barbary Partridge has the bill, the bare space 

 around the eyes, the tarsi, toes, and claws red ; the sides of 

 the head bluish-grey ; its upper part and the hind-neck 

 chestnut-brown ; the neck with a broad collar of the same, 

 spotted with white ; the back and tail greyish-brown ; the 

 wing-coverts edged with light red ; the primary quills 



