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DIMENS. Entire length thirteen inches six lines: length of the bill (from the 

 forehead) eight lines, (from the gape) eleven lines; of the tarsus one inch seven 

 lines ; of the tail four inches one line ; from the carpus to the end of the wing six 

 inches six lines : breadth, wings extended, twenty inches ten lines. 



DESCRIPT. Forehead cinereous ; crown and occiput reddish brown ; throat, 

 cheeks, and a broad band above the eyes reaching nearly to the nape, white ; 

 the white space on the throat bounded by a black collar, which spreads itself out on 

 the upper part of the breast and sides of the neck, in the form of black spots on 

 a light reddish ground ; intermixed with the black spots are a few white ones ; lower 

 part of the breast bluish ash ; belly and abdomen rust-red ; feathers on the sides 

 cinereous, each with two transverse bars across the middle, the first white and the 

 second black, beyond which last is a large semilunar rust-coloured spot, occupying 

 the tip : all the upper parts of the body reddish ash : quills grayish brown, with the 

 outer webs ochre-yellow : the four middle tail-feathers like the back ; the others 

 rust-colour: orbits, bill, and feet, bright red. In the female the colours are paler, 

 but in other respects similar to those of the male. ( Egg.) Reddish yellow white, 

 spotted and speckled with reddish brown : long. diam. one inch seven lines and a 

 half; trans, diam. one inch three lines. 



A native of France, Italy, and the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, from whence 

 it has been imported into England, and naturalized in some parts of the country*. 

 Is very common in Suffolk, frequenting waste heaths and extensive barren lands, 

 more than cornfields. Occasionally met with in other counties. On the Continent, 

 is said to lay from fifteen to eighteen eggs. 



* (2. OKTYX, Steph.) 



* 155. P. Virginiana, Lath. (Virginian Partridge.) Body above 

 brownish chestnut, variegated with black and rufous ; beneath whitish, 

 with transverse undulating black lines : throat, and a broad band above 

 the eye, white. 



Tetrao Virginianus, Wils. Amer. Orn. vol. vi. p. 21. pi. 47. f. 2. Perdix 

 borealis, Temm. Pig. et Gall. torn. in. pp. 436, and 735. Virginia and Mary- 

 land Partridge, Lath. Syn. vol. n. pp. 777, and 778. Northern Colin, Shaw, 

 Gen. Zool. vol. xi. p. 377. 



DIMENS. Entire length nine inches : length of the bill six lines and a half; of 

 the tarsus one inch three lines. 



DESCRIPT. ( Male.) Forehead black ; a broad white band above the eye, reach- 

 ing to the nape, above which is another narrow one of black ; throat white, bounded 

 by a black collar, which expands over the front and sides of the neck in the form 

 of black spots, mixed with others white and red : crown of the head chestnut-red, 

 spotted with black ; upper part of the body brownish chestnut ; the edges of the 

 feathers cinereous, with fine black streaks ; in the middle of the back some large 

 black spots edged with rufous : scapulars and greater wing-coverts spotted with black 

 and red on their inner webs, with cinereous and red on their outer ; lesser coverts 

 red with fine undulating black lines : breast reddish white, with transverse black 

 lines ; belly pure white, with black lines of a semicircular form ; feathers on the 

 sides rufous, with an edging of white spots surrounded with black ; under tail-coverts 

 red, spotted with black ; tail bluish ash ; the middle feathers rufous towards their 

 extremities, and marked with brown undulating lines : bill black, reddish at the 

 base: feet brownish red. (Female.) Throat, and band above the eyes, pale red, 

 the latter without the black streak above ; the red on the throat surrounded by spots 

 of black, brown, and white : nape, and upper part of the head, spotted with red : 

 feathers on the back more deeply edged with cinereous ; rest of the upper parts 

 paler than in the male bird : breast bright red, with two little white spots towards 

 the extremity of each feather : tail bluish ash, with fine undulating lines of brown 

 and whitish towards the tips of all the feathers : bill with more red at the base than 

 in the male. The young of the year very much resemble the adult female, but 

 the transverse undulating lines on the back and tail-feathers are more numerous. 

 (Egg.) White: of a pointed form: long. diam. one inch two lines and a half; 

 trans, diam. one inch. 



* Pulteney observes that this species has been killed near Weymouth in Dorsetshire, and 

 suggests the probability of its sometimes reaching this country from the Islands of Jersey and 

 Guernsey. If this be ever the case, which is rather doubtful, it has a claim to be considered as 

 one of our native species. 



