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RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE. 



GUERNSEY PARTRIDGE. FRENCH PARTRIDGE. 



PLATE CXLII. FIG. II. 



Perdue rufa, Mo>~TAur. FLEMING. 



Tetrao rufi's, BEWICK. 



THE nest is made of grass and a few feathers of the bird itself, 

 and is placed among corn, grass, or clover, or near a bush. 



Mr. Jesse says that a clergyman in the county of Norfolk found 

 the nest in the thatch of a hay-rick, and informed him that such is 

 no unfrequeut occurrence. Other similar instances are mentioned. 



The eggs are usually from ten to twelve in number: as many as 

 eighteen have been sometimes found. They are of a reddish yellow- 

 white colour, spotted and speckled with reddish brown. The young 

 leave the nest soon after being hatched. The male takes no part 

 in the incubation of the eggs, and leaves the care of the brood to 

 their mother till they are hah grown, when he returns to them, and 

 continues with them till the following spring. 



