MOUNTAIN PARTRIDGE. 
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Varietc de la Perdrix grise. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. 308. — Temm. 
Man. d'Orni. p. 309 . 
Mountain Partridge. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. JQ5. 10. 
This bird is ten inches and three quarters in 
length: the beak is grey: the head, throat, and 
hind part of the neck, are reddish buff : the upper 
part of the body and wings are chesnut, the edges 
of the feathers brownish, and the back and sca- 
pulars are varied with grey ; the fore-part of the 
neck, the breast, the upper part of the belly, the 
sides, and the under tail-coverts, are pale chesnut : 
the lower belly, the vent, and the thighs, are pale 
buff: the tail consists of twenty feathers, the six 
middle of which are chesnut-brown, with grey 
tips ; the outer seven on each side pale chesnut : 
legs greyish brown. 
Much diversity of opinion prevails respecting 
this species, Brisson describes it as distinct ; but 
Temminck asserts that it is only a variety of the 
common Partridge. I am inclined to Brisson’s 
opinion from the circumstance of its inhabiting 
mountainous situations, and from never having 
seen a specimen captured in this country (where 
the common Partridge is extremely abundant) that 
would agree with the above description : it dis- 
agrees with the last-mentioned bird in many re- 
spects, especially in its small size, and in having 
twenty feathers in the tail. Said to frequent the 
mountainous parts on the continent. 
