RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE. 347 



Partridges "which are found in Barbary and Greece, and from 

 thence to a considerable distance eastward. 



M. Temminck mentions, in the fourth part of his Manual, 

 that this species is also an inhabitant of Japan, and does not 

 exhibit there any difference either in its form or the colour- 

 ing of its plumage. 



The adult male has the beak red ; from the nostrils a 

 black streak passes to the eye, and recommencing behind the 

 eye passes downwards and then forwards, joining in front, 

 forming a gorget of black, from which, both on the sides of 

 the neck and in the front, numerous black streaks and spots 

 descend towards the breast ; the irides reddish orange, eye- 

 lids vermilion red ; top of the head with a line of Avhite 

 before and behind the eye ; back of the neck, the shoulders, 

 back, wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts, hair-brown, 

 the plumage smooth and blended ; wing-feathers greyish 

 black, with a margin of wood-brown on the outer web ; tail- 

 feathers chestnut ; breast pearl-grey ; belly, vent, and under 

 tail-coverts, fawn-colour ; feathers of the sides, flanks, and 

 thighs transversely barred with pearl-grey, white, black, and 

 fawn-colour ; legs and toes red, the former with a blunt 

 rounded knob in the situation of a spur ; the claws brown. 



Whole length thirteen inches and a half. From the 

 carpal joint to the end of the wing six inches and one 

 quarter ; the first quill-feather as long as the sixth, but both 

 shorter than the second, third, fourth, or fifth, which are 

 nearly equal, and the longest in the wing. 



The female is rather smaller than the male ; but docs not 

 differ much, except that the plumage is not quite so bright in 

 colour, and she has no rounded spur-like knob on the legs. 



