224 BARBARY PARTRIDGE. 



without the assistance of its wings, and was able to spring 

 from the floor to the top of a table with little seeming effort. 



Male; length, one foot one inch; bill, red, as is a bare 

 space over the eye; iris, hazel; head on the sides, bluish 

 ash-colour, with a narrow black edge above; crown, neck on 

 the back, and nape, rich chesnut brown, coming round in 

 front to the bottom of the neck, handsomely variegated with 

 small triangular-shaped white spots. Chin and throat, bluish 

 ash-colour above and below the collar; breast, brownish grey, 

 with a tinge of reddish buff, barred on the sides with white, 

 black, and bright chesnut; on the lower part yellowish brown, 

 and then reddish buff. Back, greyish brown. 



Greater and lesser wing coverts, a mixture of brown and 

 grey, broadly edged with chesnut. Primaries, brownish black 

 on the inner webs, the outer web of the fourth greyish brown, 

 of the others light brown on their inner half, pencilled with 

 dusky transverse markings; tertiaries, a mixture of brown and 

 grey. The tail, rich chesnut brown, has the middle feathers 

 pencilled with dusky transverse markings; under tail coverts, 

 brownish grey, with a tinge of reddish buff. The legs, which 

 have blunt spurs toes, and claws, red. 



The female is smaller, the colour not so bright, and she is 

 without the spurs. 



