THE COLOURS OF PARTRIDGES 57 
colour.’! Reddish varieties are comparatively scarce, 
but Mr. Borrer once met with a covey of eight, every 
bird of which was of a light fawn colour. A well- 
known variety which crops up from time to time 
in Great Britain is the form which the late Sir 
W. Jardine designated Perdix montana. It occurs 
plentifully enough in the Vosges Mountains, but has 
received but little notice in this country. 
Writing in the ‘Field’ of September 30, 1893, 
Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier records a bird of this variety, 
which came under his notice in the autumn of 1893. 
It had been shot on September 25, in the neighbour- 
hood of Stourbridge, out of a covey of partridges 
of the ordinary colour, from which it was readily 
distinguished. ‘The head and upper part of the 
neck are of a lighter brown than in the common 
bird » the lower part o the neck, upper part of the 
breast, the flanks, the back, and the wing coverts are 
dark reddish ferruginous brown ; the feathers of the 
upper wing coverts having a central narrow stripe of 
light brown. There is an entire absence of the slatey 
grey character of P. cinerea. On the sternum the 
feathers are light buff, each being tipped with two dark 
brown circular spots, one on each side of the central 
shaft. The feathers of the legs and vent are buff; the 
! Field, February 7, 1891. 
