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GUERNSEY PARTRIDGE. 
white, bounded by a black fascia, spotted with white j the 
hypochondria naarked with a simple black vittaj the taii-fea- 
thers sixteen, the outer ones rufous. 
Perdix rufa. Raii. Syn.p. 37. a. 5. — Will. Orn.p. 167. — Lath. 
Ind. Orn. 1 . 647« 12* /3. 
Perdix rubra. Briss. Orn. 1. 236. 10. — Temm. Gall. Ind.p. 726. 
Tetrao rufus. Lina. Si/st. Nat. 1. 276. 12. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 
1. 756. 12. 
Perdrix rouge. Buff. Ois. 2. 431. pi. 15. — Buff. PL Enl. 150. — 
Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3 .p. 36l. — Temm. Man. d'Orni. p. 300. 
Guernsey Partridge. Albin. Birds. \ . pi. 2 Q . — Will. Ang. 167. 
pi. 29. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 768. — Lath. Syn. Sup. 1 . 220. — 
Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. — Mont. Or?i. Diet. Sup. — Levoin. Brit. 
Birds. 3. pi. 137- — Pult. Cat. Dors. p. 7. 
Var. j 3 . corpora toto alhido. 
With the whole body whitish. 
Perdix rubra, (a.) Temm. Gall. Jnd. p. 726. 
La Perdrix rouge blanche. Briss. Orn. \. p. 238- — Temm. Pig. 
et Gall. 3. p. 366. 
Rather smaller than the Greek Partridge : 
length thirteen inches : the forehead is grey- 
brown : the hind head rufous-brown : the chin 
and throat white, surrounded with black, as in 
the preceding : eyebrows white : the feathers of 
the hind head with two oblique black spots on 
each : hind part of the neck rufous-brown : the 
back, the wings, and the rump, grey-brown : quills 
the same, with their exterior margins yellowish : 
the fore-part and sides of the neck grey, each fea- 
ther with two black spots : the breast pale ash : the 
belly, the sides, the thighs, and the vent, rufous ; 
the sides marked with lunulated stripes of white, 
black, and orange : the tail composed of sixteen 
feathers ; the four middle of which are cinereous- 
