RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE. 145 



RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE. 



GUERNSEY PARTRIDGE. FRENCH PARTRIDGE. 

 PLATE CXLII. FIGURE II. 



Perdix rufa, MONTAGU. FLEMING. 



Tetrao ru/us, 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 unfrequent occur- 

 rence. Other similar instances are mentioned. 



The eggs are usually from ten to twelve in num- 

 ber: 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 half grown, 

 when he returns to them, and continues with them till 

 the following spring. 



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