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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 in it, is 

 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, BAEBARY. 



PEED ix 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 



