BARBARY PARTRIDGE 



PLATE CXLIII. FIGURE II. 



Caccabis petrosa, ...... DRESSER. 



Perdix petrosa, . . . . . . LATHAM. 



~*HESE birds, which are very rare stragglers to England, 

 build in barren places and among desert mountains, 

 among low bushes on the ground. 



The eggs are as many as fifteen, of a dull yellowish 

 colour, thickly dotted with greenish-olive spots. 



