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BRITJSH BIRDS. 



THE RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE. 



GUERNSEY PARTRIDGE. 



(Pcrdix Rubra, Briss. Pcrdrix roti-gc, Temm.) 



LATHAM describes this bird as being thirteen 

 inches in length, but does not mention either its 

 breadth or weight. The bill, legs, and orbits are 

 red; the irides hazel; chin and throat dull white, 

 surrounded by a black line or streak, which passes 

 from the brow and nostrils to the eyes, behind 

 which it continues, falls down before the auriculars, 

 and meets on the fore part of the neck; a white 

 streak extends from the brow over the eyes to- 

 wards the hinder part of the neck; the forehead is 

 bluish ash, fading into a rusty chesnut behind, 

 where the feathers are somewhat elongated, and 

 can be erected or depressed at pleasure; the hinder 



