PARTRIDGE 
Genus, EVI: PART BI. D.G: E: ie 
N° x. .Cape’P. N° 7. Californian Quail. 
q. Ceylon P. 8. Kakerlik P. 
3. Afiatic P. g. Cambaian P. 
i Crowned P. to. New Holland Quail. 
5. Common P. iz. Cafpian P. 
6, Common Quail, 12. New Holland P. 
*® WiTH FoUR TOES, FURNISHED WITH A SPUR BEHIND. 
Perdix Capenfis, Ind. Orx. ii. p. 643. 1. 
Cape Partridge, Gen. Syz. iv. p. 756. 
HERE are many reafons to fuppofe this bird and the Senegal 
Partridge to be not far diftant in {pecies, though we by no means 
are able to confirm it. It may however be obferved, that both in- 
habit Africa. The firft fuppofed to be the male, the latter the female, 
in incomplete plumage: our bird has two fpurs, the lower one of 
which is ftout and fharp; the Senegal Partridge has likewife two, but 
both of them blunt, a circumftance not uncommon in female birds, 
both of the Partridge and Phea/ant genus. 
What the Partridges were which Mr. Levaillant talks of finding at 
the Cape, we are not able to affirm. He merely fays, they were as 
big as Pheafants, and of three kinds, and in fuch quantities as to 
ferve them as ordinary food; and they put them by fcores into the 
pots, in order to make foup of them *. 
* Levaill. Voy. is p. 97+ (Fr. ed, 8y0.) 
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