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figured by Thienemann, pi. 7, fig. 8. This figure has 
the length, and almost the breadth of one figured as 
Perdix saxatilis. Figs. 5, a, b, which Thienemann 
figures of the Francolin’s egg, is forty millemetres long, 
and twenty-nine millemetres broad, {Saxatilis being 
forty by thirty.) This in my opinion is too large. 
INIy specimens are much more nearly the size of those 
of P. cinerea. In the grain of the shell they also 
resemble the egg of P. petrosa. They have a somewhat 
granular surface and an isabelle white ground colour, 
and no spots.” 
The following are the measurements given by 
Baldamus of the five European Partridges, and the 
dimensions of their eggs : — Perdix Grceca, {Saxatilis .^ — 
Length of bird from thirty-two to thirty-five centimetres; 
egg, greater diameter from forty-three to forty-five 
millemetres, lesser from twenty-two to twenty-three 
millemetres. P. petrosa, (Barbary in B. lists.) — Bird 
thirty-one to thirty-two centimetres ; egg, greater diameter 
thirty-nine to forty-one millemetres, lesser twenty-nine 
to thirty-one millemetres. P. rubra, (Bed-leg.) — Bird, 
thirty to thirty-one centimetres; egg, greater diameter 
forty to forty-one millemetres, lesser thirty to thirty 
millemetres and a half. P. cinerea, (Grey Partridge.) 
— Bird, thirty centimetres ; egg, greater diameter thirty- 
three to thirty-five millemetres, lesser twenty -five to 
twenty-six millemetres. P. francolinus. — Bird, thirty 
centimetres; egg, greater diameter thirty-three to thirty- 
four millemetres, lesser twenty-five to twenty-six 
millemetres.* 
The figure of the egg of the Francolin in Badeker’s 
work is in accordance with this description of Balda- 
* Ten millemetres are one centimetre, and to bring centimetres 
into English inches, midtiply by two and divide by five. 
