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to us that they are one and the fame bird, differing only in fex, and 
that in general both have the hind toe not furnifhed with a claw. 
That it is fo in So#nera?’s bird, both the figure and defcription teftify ; 
and it feems fufficiently clear alfo, that Dr. Badenach meant the fame 
in his defcription of the bird in the Philofopkical Tranfaétions *, al- 
though his draughtfman has figured it with a back claw; but it cannot 
be denied, that now and then an individual may have a claw: for in 
the one defcribed by us from the Leverian Mufeum, it was the cafe, 
and the. legs fafhioned fo exactly like thofe of a Pigeow, added to the 
attitude of the bird being different from the ufual one of any of the 
genus, as to induce us to call it a Pigeow. In a collection of living 
birds at Exeter Exchange, fome few years fince, was one of thofe alive, 
which had every gait and appearance of a Partridge or Quail: but to 
put the matter beyond all doubt, we have had the point cleared up by 
the examination of three fpecimens of the male fent to England in 
fpirits from. Sumetra;all of which wanted the back claw: and as an 
additional proof, Sir: Fo/eph\ Banks fome time fince produced to me 
two fpecimens of thefe birds fent to him as male and female; hence- 
forth therefore, the! ornitholosift will do right in confidering the Lefér 
sroconed ‘Pigeon and Green Partridge as see de in fex only. 
Perdix cinerea, Ind. Orz. ii. p. 645..9.—Gerin. Orn. iil. t. 249. 250. 251. — 
Sepp. Vog. ii. p. 185, tab. 96. 97- 
T is generally fuppofed that the female Paréridge differs from the 
male in wanting the horfe-fhoe mark on the breaft. We have 
however been informed, that ‘this is by no means the cafe, from the 
obfervations. of our friends. The male certainly obtains the horfe- 
fhoe on the breaft before the female; but in the female, after the 
* Pedes tridaétyli, fifi, incarnati, fubnodofi; digitus pofticus reliquis craffior, bre- 
wior, truncatufque, vol. Ixil, p. 2. tab. 1. 
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