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brown ; some of the exterior ones spotted with 
rufous on the edge, near the tip ; the lesser ones 
varied with grey : the tail consists of fourteen grey 
feathers ; the five lateral ones half rufous at their 
tips : the legs are red ; the tarsi furnished with a 
blunt knob. The female is less than the male ; the 
plumage is less brilliant in colour : the black band 
surrounding the white on the throat narrower, and 
the black lunules on the sides of the body very 
slender. It occasionally varies slightly in being 
rather mottled with white, with the usual colours 
paler. 
It is found in profusion throughout Turkey, the 
Grecian Archipelago, Sicily, Naples, Italy, and 
France ; likewise on the Alps of Switzerland and 
Germany: it frequents the rocky and mountainous 
parts, descending in May to breed : its eggs are 
much esteemed ; they are white, sprinkled with 
numerous red spots, and are sixteen or eighteen 
in number. 
GUERNSEY PARTRIDGE. 
(Perdix rufa.) 
Pb. corpora supra griseo-Jusco, subtus rujo, pectore cinereo, 
gutlure collogue superiore albis, fascia nigrd albo punctatd 
cinctis, hypochondriis vittd nigrdj simplici notatis, .rectricibus 
sedecim, extimis rujis. 
Partridge with the body above grey-brown j the breast grey j 
beneath rufous ; with the throat and upper part of the neck 
