RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE. 



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RASORES. 



TETRAONIDM. 





THE RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE. 



Red-legged Partridge, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 365. 



Perdix rufa, Guernsey 

 Tetrao ritfus. Red-legged 

 Perdix rufa, Guernsey 

 ,, rubra. Red-legged 



Perdr 



IX rouge. 



Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 355. 



Flem. Brit. An. p. 45. 



Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 172. 



Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xvii. 



Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 485. 



It is stated in DanieFs Rural Sports, that so long ago 

 as the time of Charles the Second, several pairs of Red- 

 legged Partridges were turned out about Windsor to obtain 

 a stock ; but they are supposed to have perished, although 

 some of them, or their descendants, were seen for a few years 

 afterwards ; and I find other record of this bird having been 



