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MOUNTAIN PARTRIDGE. 
of 9uch hatchings are always a puny race, seldom 
surviving the rigours of the winter. 
Many instances of the docility of these birds are 
related, and it is stated by Willoughby, that a cer- 
tain Sussex man had, by his industry, made a covey 
of them so tame that he drove them before him, 
upon a wager, from the country to London, though 
they were quite free, and had their wings grown. 
Dr. Leach has lately communicated to me another 
instance of their docility : General Buckley of 
Cobham has a brood that were hatched beneath a 
hen, and are so tame as regularly to come and be 
fed, which they do even at this present time, Oc- 
tober 1818, 
MOUNTAIN PARTRIDGE. 
(Perdix montana.) 
Pe. dilute castanea, cajnte colloque supremo Julvis, rectricibus 
septem extimis pallide castaneis. 
Pale chesnut Partridge, with the head and upper part of the 
neck fulrous j the seven outer tail-feathers pale chesnut. 
Perdix montana. Lath. Jnd. Orn. 2. 6*16. 11. — Briss. Orn. 1. 
222. 2. pi. 21. f. 2. 
Perdix cinerea var. a. Temm. Gall. Ind. p. /30. 
Tetrao montanus. Gmel. Spst, Nat. 1. 758. 33. 
La Perdrix de Montagne. Buff. Ois. 2.p, 41 9. — Buff. PI. Enl. 
136. 
