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BARBARY PARTRIDGE. 
(Perdix petrosa.) 
Pe. corpore supra Juscescente cinereo, suhtus dilute fusco^ vertice 
torqueque castaneis ; hdc maculis albis variis, superciliis cine* 
reis, hypochondriis vittd nigra duplici notatis, tectricibus 
alarum maculis cceruleis, rectricibus sedecem, extimis basi 
cinereis^ apice aurantiis. 
Partridge with the body above brown-grey, beneath pale fus- 
cous ; the crown and collar chesnut, the latter varied with 
white spots ; the eyebrows grey ; the hypochondria marked 
with a double black vitta j the wing-coverts with blue spots j 
the tail-feathers sixteen, the outer ones grey at their base, 
with orange tips, 
Perdix petrosa. Temm, Gall. Ind, p. 727- — Lath. Ind. Orn, 2 . 
648. 14. ? 
Perdrix rufa. y. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2 . 647. 12 . 
Perdix rubra Barbarica. Briss.Orn. \. 11 . 
Tetrao petrosus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1 . 753. 35. ? 
Le Perdrix rouge de Barbaric. Buff. Ois. 2 . 445. 
Le Perdrix de la roche, ou le Gambra. Buff. Ois. 2. 446. 
Perdrix Gambra. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. 368. — Temm. Man. 
d'Orni. p. 308. 
Rufous-breasted Partridge. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 771. 14. 
Barbary Partridge. Edw.pl. 70 . — Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 770 . 
Less than the Greek Partridge : length about 
thirteen inches : irides hazel : beak, eyelids, and 
round the eyes, scarlet : top of the head bright 
chesnut, passing down to the back : eyebrows 
grey-ash : space between the beak and eye, and 
sides of the head and throat, the same : behind 
the ears a dusky brown spot j from this depends a 
