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ascending the rivers, but by far the greatest 
number breeding on the shores of the sea, in un- 
frequented places. The nest, which is hollow, 
with some fragments of plants placed im it, 1s 
made generally among the gravel or pebbles, but 
sometimes also in rocky places. The eggs, of which 
there are not more than three or four, are of an 
oval shape, and of a pale greyish yellow hue, 
marked all over with dots, blotches, and streaks of 
blackish brown. 
PARTRIDGE, BARBARY. 
PERDIX PETROSA, Gould. 
It is said by Naturalists to frequent France, 
Spain, and Germany, while in England only a few 
rare specimens have been discovered. <A bird of 
this species was found dead a few miles from 
Melton Mowbray, in Leicestershire, in April, 1842, 
since which time a few other individuals have 
been observed in England, where it is generally 
supposed that a few eggs of this breed had been 
introduced some years since, with a much larger 
quantity of those of the more common red-legged 
birds. The Barbary Partridge, otherwise the 
Mock Partridge, and Gambia Partridge of Buffon, 
is found in Africa, as far south as Senegal, and to 
the north extending its range over Morocco and 
