364 PARTRIDGE. Class II. 



the neck is a strong mixture of rust color : 

 on the breast of the male is a broad mark 

 in form of a horse-shoe, of a deep orange 

 hue; in the female it is less distinct. Each 

 feather on the back is finely marked with 

 several semicircular lines of reddish brown 

 and black : the scapulars with a narrow white 

 line along their shafts, and with black and ci- 

 nereous undulated lines on the webs ; whose 

 sides are marked with a large spot of rust color. 

 The greater quil feathers are dusky, spotted on 

 each web with pale red : it has eighteen feathers 

 in the tail ; the six outmost on each side are of 

 a bright rust color tipt with white ; the others 

 marked transversely with irregular lines of pale 

 reddish brown and black : the legs are of a 

 whitish cast. 

 Manners. The nature of this bird is so well known, that 

 it will be unnecessary to detain the readers with 

 any account of it: all writers agree, that its 

 passion for venery exceeds that of any bird of 

 the genus ; should the readers' curiosity be ex- 

 cited to see a more particular account, we beg 

 leave to refer them to those authors who have 

 recorded this part of its natural history.* 



* Plimj lib. x. c. 23. Wil. orn. 168. Edw. preface to Glean- 

 ings, part 2. 



