GINGI PARTRIDGE. 
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broad chesnut-brown collar, which on the fore-part 
of the neck is spotted with white : the top of the 
head is of a deep grey : lower down a rich patch 
of rose-colour : the upper parts of the body are of 
an olive-grey: on the scapulars are nine or ten 
spots of deep rich blue, and the feathers are fringed 
with orange : the sides of the body are covered 
with beautiful feathers, variegated with orange 
and black : the belly, the thighs, and the vent, are 
pale brown : the four middle tail-feathers are grey, 
and the lateral ones red : the legs are red ; in the 
male armed with a blunt spur ; the claws are 
brown. Female less brilliant in colour, smaller, 
and the collar of the neck narrower. It varies as 
in the two preceding species. 
This elegant species inhabits the rocky mountains 
of Spain, the isles of Majorca, Minorca, Sar- 
dinia, Corsica, Malta, Sicily, and Calabria : on the 
northern shores of the Mediterranean and in France 
it is rare, but on the southern, and the coast of 
Barbary, it is extremely numerous : it also occurs 
in Teneriffe, and as far as the river Niger in 
Senegal : it feeds upon seeds and insects, but its 
manners are unknown. 
GINGI PARTRIDGE. 
(Perdix Gingica.) 
Pe. corf ore supra griseo-Julva, sublus albo, laterihus cinereis 
maculis^ casianeis variegatisj vertice castaneo, superciliis albisy 
