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356. r : “Aves... 
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lour and brown; the two middle quills oft the tail much elongated 
and terminating inva point; throat of the male, black. Found in 
the south of France; and all round the Mediterranean,(1) ¥ 
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Preropix, Briss. 
Partridges have the tarsi naked like the toes. Among them the 
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FRanco.inus, Tem. 
Is distinguished by a longer and*stronger beak; a larger tail Vand? 
generally speaking, by stout spurs. The south of Europe produces 
one, w. p> * "ti 
Tetrao francolinus, L.(2) Enl. 147, 148; Edw. 246. With red 
feet; neck and belly of the male, black, with round white spots; 
_ a bright red collar.(3) 
Some of these birds foreign to Europe are remarkable for a 
double spur,(4) or for the naked skin of their throat.(5) In 
others these characters are united,(6) and in certain | large beak- 
ed species the spurs are altogether wanting.(7) The 
Common PARTRIDGES ; a 4 
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Have a somewhat weaker beak; the spurs of the males are either 
short, or mere simple tubercles; they are deficient in the female. — 
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(1) Add of those species which have filaments to the tail, Tetr. senegalus, or 
Pterocles guttatus, Tem., Enl. 130, and the female 345; —Pterocles exustus, Tem. © 
Col., 354 and 360:—Of — whose tail. is simply pointed, Tetr. drenarius, ‘Pall. m5 
Noy. Com. Petrop., XIX, pl. viii, or Pterocles arenarius, Col. 52 and 53, the same 
as the Perdix arragonica, Lath.;—Pterocles Lichtensteinii,. T. Col. 355.and 361. 
The male 355 is at all events closely allied to the Tetr. indicus, Lath.; Sonner. II, 
96;—Pterocles coronatus, Tem. Col. 339 and 540; —Pteroeles quadricinctus, Tem. or 
Oenas bicinctus, Vieill. Galer. 220 ;—finally the largest species, the Tir. fasianel- 
lus, Gm. or Long-tailed Gelinotte of Hudson’s Bay, Edw. 117, ~ 
(2) Francolino, the name of the blind made for the purpose of killing the bird 
whose appellation it bears, is applied in Italy to several aie such as the Geli- 
notte and this one. , ' 
(3) Add the Tetrao ponticerianus, Sonner. Voy. 1, 11, 165, Tem. Col. 213;— 
perlatus, Briss., pl. xxviii, A, fig. 1; Vieill. Galer. 213; the same as the naar 
riensis, Sonn. II, 166, pl. xcvii. 
(4) Tetrao bicalcaratus, L., Enl. 137; ee Clappertoni, Rupp., pl. ix, can 
hardly be said to differ from it; ;—spadiceus, Sonn. Il, 169;—zezlonensis, Ind. Zool. 
pl. xiv.—The Perdix cruenta, Tem. Col. 322, has three and even four spurs, and 
bright colours foreign to the rest of the genus. ‘ 
(5) Tetrao rubicollis, Enl..180. 
(6) Tetrao nudicollis.  * 
(7) Tetrao javanicus, Brown, Il., xvii, (a bad figure); there is a better one, 
Col. 148, under the name of Pedriz ajanham, Vemm. : 
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