BARBARY PARTRIDGE. 101 



Partridge. The eggs, which are generally fourteen or 

 fifteen in number, are of a dirty yellow colour, spotted all 

 over with oil green ; but we are not at present so fortunate 

 as to possess an egg of this bird to figure from. 



The specimen from which our drawing is made measures 

 thirteen inches in length; the wing, from the carpus to the 

 tip, nearly six inches. 



The colouring of the plumage is as follows : — The top of 

 the head, from the base of the upper mandible to the back 

 of the neck, burnt umber : a band of pale ash-colour runs 

 alongside of it, but is divided from the brown feathers by 

 a narrow black edge; the chin, throat, and sides of the 

 face are of the same pale ash-colour. The ear-coverts are 

 wood-brown, and join the gorget of rich chestnut-colour, 

 which is studded over with triangular white spots. The 

 upper part of the breast and tippet are a mixture of olivaceous 

 brown and ash-colour. The back, rump, tail, upper wing- 

 coverts, tertials, and upper tail-coverts, are a mixture of 

 wood-brown and ash-colour ; the middle tail-feathers and 

 basal half of the quill-feathers are pencilled with dusky 

 transverse markings ; the rounded feathers of the wing- 

 coverts are slate-coloured, broadly edged with chestnut. 

 Lower part of the breast brown ochre, belly and vent buff- 

 coloured. The sides and. flanks are ornamented with broad 

 bars of white, black, and cinnamon-brown. Tail, rich 

 chestnut-brown. Beak, orbits, and legs are said to be 

 bright red ; iris, hazel. 



