BIRDS. CALLING. 31. Perclix. 51 



tail-feathers white, the rest black more or less tipt 

 wiih white. 



Ptarmigan. Br. Zool. t. 43. Lewin t. 135. Donovan t. 12. 



Length 15 inches : extent 23 : weight 19 ounces. 



Kill black : iris ha/el: pluma*c p<ile brown or ash-colour, crossed 

 with fmall duskv fpots and burs : head and neck with broad bars of 

 black, ferruginous, and white ; lelly white : U'/.r white, the shafts 

 of the greater quills black : tail-coverts white, reaching to the crd 

 of the tail, and concealing it when clofed : legs and toes covered 

 with white down. In winter the plumage changes to pure white, 

 except the shafts of the wings and tail, and a black fpot in the 

 male between the bill and the eye. 



144. T. scoticus. Tawny-red, with transverse black lines 

 and spots : 6 outer tail-feathers each side entirely 

 blackish : over the eyes a naked scarlet fringed 

 membrane. 



Red Grous. Br. Zool. t. 43. Lewi* t. 136. Walcot t. 183. 



Length 16 inches : extent 26 inches : weight near 20 ounces. 

 Bill black : iris hazel: nostrils covered with black and ferruginous 

 feathers ; at the bafe of the lower mandible a white fpot : head and 

 neck pale tawny, with black lines : bach and frapulars deeper t.uvnv . 

 breast and belly dull purplish-blown, crossed with niimilc dusk-/ 

 lines : 4 middle tail-feathers with black and red bars : A'., T T tlochttl 

 below the knees with white down. 



31. PERDIX. Partridge. 



145. P. cincrea. Cinereous, with black, rufous, and white 

 lines : behind the eyes a naked red skin : on the 

 breast a deep chesnut patch : outer tail-feathers 

 bright chesnut. 



.Common Partridge. Lenin t. 137. Allrin t. 27. ll'alcat.t, 184. 



Length 13 inches : extent 20 : weight nearly 55 ounces. 

 Bill brown : iris hazel : he.ad reddish-brown : plumage grey, crossed 

 with black and hay lines ; the feathers of the back and wing. 

 coverts with a white line down the middle : breast with a horic- 

 shoe-like ehefnut mark : greater quills dusky, with reddish spots 

 on each web : 6 outmost tail-feathers each side ferruginous tipt 

 with white, the rest like the back : legs of the male with a blunt 

 fpur. Female, head duller : cheeks greyish : fpot on the breast 

 white the first year, dull chesnut the fecond, obfolcte the third. 



146. II. -rw/rt. Legs and bill red : through the eyes a 

 white stripe : throat white, with a black collar 

 spotted with white. 



Red-leggec! Partridge, Leu- in t. 538. dlbin t. 29. 



Not uncommon in Norfolk and Si'jfclk, and rather larger than 

 the last. Bill and iris red : front greyish : head and breast reddish ; 

 chin white ; sides and lower part of the netk fpctted with black ; 

 back, wings and rump grey-brown : sides with crcfccnt-like ftripes of 

 black white and orange : quill-feathers edged with dull yellow ; 

 6 outer tail-feathers rufous, the middle-ones grey-brown : vent palv 

 rufous : tegs, of the male, with a blunt fpur. 



147. P. Cotui-nix. Variegated grey, yellow, brown and 

 white; beneath pale reddish-white: down the crown 

 and over the eyes a yellowish white streak : tail- 

 feathers with a rufous margin and crescent. 



Quail. Lewin t. 139. Jlbint.%0. Walcot. t. 185. 



Length 7 inches and a half: extent 14 : weight 



Kill dusky : iris hazel, becoming yellow : head ferruginous fpottcd 

 with black, the crown divided by a yellow-white line: chin and 

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