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LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



articles on this subject which appeared in the ' Field ' (Nov. 

 21, 1891 ; April 9, 1892). 



" In every text-book on ornithology which gives a description 

 of the plumage in the male and female of the Common Par- 



Fig. 2. 



Fig. i 



Fig- 3- 



Fig. i. Median wing-covert of male Partridge. Figs. 2 & 3. Median 

 wing-coverts of female Partridge. 



tridge we find that the chief difference mentioned as distin- 

 guishing the two sexes is, that the male has a large chestnut 

 horse- shoe-shaped mark on the lower breast, while in the female 

 this marking is reduced to a few chestnut spots, or is some- 

 times entirely absent. This character, as we first pointed out 



