PARTRIDGE. 



were received not long fince from Bojion, in New England, by a 

 perfon, who turned them into the fields at large ; and that they 

 moft certainly have bred, as a covey of them was afterwards feen. 

 The fpecies he could not afcertain from his own knowledge, not 

 having itsn. therru 



afitr 



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Pondicherry Partridge, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 774. N" 17. \y. 



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PONDICHER. 

 RY P. 



DESCKIFTIOIfo. 



ENGTH ten inches. Bill black : the chin, round the eye, 

 and beneath it, yellow ; the reft of the head, neck, and breaft, 

 pale brownifh white, marked with large roundilh black fpots : a 

 bar, compofed of narrow lines of black and white, divides the mid- 

 dle of the breaft, beneath which it is white : the belly is brown-, 

 marked with ftiort tranfverfe bars of black : back whitifti brown, 

 crofled with narrow tranfverfe dafties of black, pointed at each 

 end : the prime quills are black at the tips : tail reddifti clay-co- 

 loured brown, crofled with nine or ten oblique bars of black j tips 

 of the feathers white : legs very pale before, the hind part and 

 toes black : hind claw very fmall : legs not furniflicd with fpurs. 



Inhabits India, where it is called Ghoori tetur, or Rock-Pigeon. Place and Majh. 

 It is met with for the moft part in pairs, feldom in covies; nor ner*. 



indeed is it very common. It is ftiy, flies high, and is not eafily 

 fliot. It is called by fome a Partridge, but its cry is very unlike 

 that bird *. From the great fimilarity in markings to the Pon- 

 dicherry Partridge, and its not having a fpur, I apprehend it to ber 

 t)xt female of that fpecies. 



• Mr, MiMeton. 



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