100 TETRAONID.E, 



R A SORES. TETRAONIDM. 



PLATE CLV. 



BARBARY PARTRIDGE. 



PERDIX PETROSA. 



We are enabled to figure the Barbary Partridge through 

 the kindness of Mr. Goatley, of Chipping Norton, Oxford- 

 shire, who in the most obliging manner forwarded the only 

 known British killed specimen to us for the purpose. 



The specimen here represented, a female, was shot in 

 Suffolk about four years ago, and, although this locality 

 is beyond the supposed range of this southern species, we 

 see no reason to doubt its having been an accidental straggler 

 in a wild state. 



This species being hitherto unknown in this country, 

 we must necessarily look, for the history of its habits and 

 manners, to the accounts of persons who have gained their 

 information in countries where the bird is at home, and 

 we have the following particulars from very good authority. 



The Barbary Partridge is found in most of the north- 

 ern parts of Africa, in Malta, Corsica, Sicily, Calabria, and in 

 the mountainous parts of Spain. 



The food of this bird consists in seeds and insects, which 

 it finds on the ground. 



The favourite haunt of the Barbary Partridge is among 

 low bushes, in unfrequented mountain districts, where it 

 also breeds on the ground in the manner of the Red-legged 



