COMMON PARTRIDGE. 



3^9 



fitting, ufually perched on a rail or gate. Make a vafl: noife with 

 the wings when they arife. 



Of late they have been introduced into Jamaica; are naturalized In Jamaica*. 

 to the climate,, and increafe greatly in a wild Hate ; and, as I ana, 

 informed^, breed in that warm climate twice in the year.. 



&,. Common PARTRiDOEi Tetrao Perdix. Rapphona. Faun, Suee. N° 205; 

 LiP6rdrix.Grife, 2)^ Buffpn, ii. 401. — ?1. Enl. 27. 



"INH"ABrTS as high zs Sweden; but has not yet rezchtd Nor-^ 

 way *. Found in the weft, . and all the temperate parts of Rujfia- 



and Sibiria, and even beyond lake Baikal, where it winters about 



fteep rocky mountains expofed to the fun, and where, the fnow lies^ 



left. 



During winter, in 5wf^(?» it burrows beneath the fnow ; and the 



whole covey retires there, , leaving a fpiracle at each, end of their; 



lodge. 



*'Bru»aiefi, N'''2ou. 



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