The Zoologist— March, 1873. 3453 



the stock dove contained not a leaf of clover, but an egg-full of charlock 

 seeds, some barley, and several weed seeds.— Edward Hearle Rodd; 

 Penzance, February 14, 1873. 

 Distinctive Marks of the Redlcgged and Barbary Partridges.— The 



chief distinction between the Barbary and the redlegged partridges is of 

 course in the feathers of the neck. There is, however, another difference, 

 which I have not seen mentioned, and which seems to me quite as marked! 

 It is in tlie feathers about the flanks. The markings of these feathers iri 

 the two birds are quite different ; the Barbary partridge being richer and 

 having two bars of black, instead of one, as in the redlegged. °The colours 

 of the feathers are as follows, beginning from the top :— 



Redlegged. Barbary. 



Bar of reddish brown Bar of reddish brown. 



Bar of black. Bar of black. 



Bar of yellowish white. Bar of white. 



Grey about the shaft, reddish about Bar of paler reddish brown. 



*e e'^ge. Bar of black. 



Reddish light bi-own Gray, very slightly bordered with 



Grey fluff tipped with light brown. reddish brown. 



Light brown. 



Gray fluff, tipped with brown in 

 parts. 



The way the bars go in the two feathers is different. In the redlegged 

 they slant; in the Barbary they are nearly semicircular, with the exception 

 of the bar of black nearest the gray, which goes straight till it reaches the 

 shaft; on the other side of the shaft it begins again, either higher up or 

 lower down, but not quite even, then gets narrower as it nears the edge.— 

 C. B. Carey. 



Lizard-eating Pheasant.-During last summer a hen pheasant having 

 been found dead, and being in very fine plumage, it was given me to stuff. 

 Having skinned it, and finding no marks which seemed to be the cause of 

 death, I proceeded to dissect it, as I often do after skinning a bird. In 

 the crop I found a few barley-corns, and some other seed-like bodies, whilst 

 in the stomach was a full-grown lizard, which had been swallowed whole, 

 and had not even cast its tail. I need scarcely say that the lizard was dead 

 when I found it, and that its discovery in such a situation somewhat 

 surprised me. Could the swallowing of it have occasioned the death of the 

 pheasant, or do these birds occasionally make a meal of the agile little, 

 reptile in question during the summer months ? I never observed them do 

 so, and I never before dissected a specimen except at the time when the 

 lizards are hyberuating. Perhaps some of my more experienced brethren 

 SECOND SEIUES — VOL. VIII. q 



