S18 BIRDS. 



Some of these birds, foreign to Europe, are remarkable for a 

 double spur*, or for the naked skin of their throat f. In others 

 these characters are united J, and in certain large billed species 

 the spurs are altogether wanting §. The 



Common Partridges 



Have a somewhat weaker bill ; the spurs of the males are either short, 

 or mere simple tubercles; they are deficient in the female. 



Tetrao cine reus, L. ; Enl. 27; Frisch. 114; Naum. 1st ed. pi. 

 3, f. 3. (The Grey Partridge). Bill and feet, ash-coloured; head, 

 fawn-coloured; the plumage of various shades of grey; a maronne 

 spot on the breast of the male. This common bird, which consti- 

 tutes so important an item in the luxuries of the tables of Euro- 

 peans, lives and builds in their fields. 



Tetr. rufus, L. ; Enl. 150. (The Red Partridge). Bill and feet 

 red; brown above; flanks speckled with red and cinereous; throat 

 white, surrounded with black; prefers the hills and rising grounds. 

 The flesh is white and dry. The south of France produces 



Perdix (jrceca, Briss. ; Per. saxatilis, Meyer ; La Bartavelle, 

 Enl. 231; Frisch, 116. Which only differs from the Red Partridge 

 in its superior size and more ash-coloured plumage. It is found 

 along the great mountain ranges) |. 



COTURNIX. 



Quails are smaller than Partridges, with a slenderer bill and shorter 

 tail: no red eye-brow nor spurs. Every one knows 



Tetrao coturnix, L. ; Enl. 170; Frisch, 117; Naum. 4, f. 4. 

 (The Common Quail). Back brown, waved with black ; a pointed 

 white stripe on each feather; throat brown; eye-brows whitish. 

 Found in the fields of Europe, and celebrated for its migrations; 

 during which this heavy bird finds means to cross the Mediterra- 

 nean^. 



* Tefrao Ucalcaratus, L.; Enl. 137; — Perdix Clappertoni, Rupp., pl.ix, can hardly 

 be said to diifer from it; — spadiceus, Sonn. II, 169; — zeUonensis, Ind. Zool. pi. xiv. 

 — The Perdix cruenta, Tern. Col. 322, has three and even four spurs, and bright co- 

 lours foreign to the rest of the genus. 



t Tetrao rubicollis, Enl. ISO. 



X Tetrao nudicolUs. 



§ Tetran jauaiiiciis, Brown, 111., xvii, (a bad figure) ; there is a better one, Col. 148, 

 under the name of Perdrix ajanham, Temm. 



II Add the Red Partridge of Barbary, a very distinct species (Tetr. petrosus, Gm.), 

 Edw. 70;— the Perdrix de monfaigne (Tetrao montaiius), Enl. 136, Frisch. 114, B, is 

 only, according to Bonnelli, a variety of the Grey Partridge; — the Perdrix de haye, 

 Tem. Col. 328 and 329; — Perd. personala, Horsf Jav.; — Perd, a gorge rousse {Perd, 

 gularis, T.);—Perd. oculea, ld.;—Perd.fusca, Vieill. GaL 212. 



^ Add the petite Caille de la Chine {Tetr. chinensis, L.), Enl. 126, F, 2, of which 

 the Tetr. mamllensis, Gm., Sonner. Voy. I, pi. xxiv, is the female; — the Caille australe 

 {Perd. attstralis, T.), Vieill. Galer. 215;— the Caille nattee {Perd. texfilis Tem.), Col. 

 35;— the Tetr. coromandeliciis, Sonner. II, 172;— 7. striatus, Sonner. II, pi. xcxviii, 

 and Temm. Col. 82, very different from that of Lath. Syn. II, pl.lxvi;— the Perdrix 

 de givgi {Tetr. gingicus), Sonner. II, p. 167, also appears to belong to this subgenus. 



