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P.A.R>OT R I DiGIEZ ° Cisse 
mond to the naked mountain of Scaroben in Cath- 
nefs, the ifle of Arran, many of the Hebrides, 
3 and the Orknies. 
96. PaRT- 
RIDGE. 
Descrip. 
** With naked legs. 
La Perdris grife ou Gouache. La Perdrix grife. Briffon av. 
Belon av. 257. I. 219. 
Perdix (Waldhun) Gefner av. PIQEnl. 27. Hift. d’Oys. I. 
669. 401. 
Perdix minor five cinerea. Starna. Zinan. 30. 
Aldr. av. Il. 66. Agerhoene. Br. 201. 
Wil. orn. 166. Rebhun. Kram. 357- 
Rati fyn. av. 57. Rebhuhn. Frifch, 1. 114. 
Tetrao Perdrix. Lin. fy. 276. Br. Zool. 86. plate M. 
Rapphona. Faun. Suec. /p. Serebitza heat No. 175. 
205. 
HE male partridge weighs near fifteen oun- 
ces; the female near two ounces lefs: the 
Jeneth to the end of the tail thirteen inches; the 
breadth twenty. The bill is whitifh: the crown 
of the head is brown {potted with reddifh white: 
behind each eye is a naked red fkin. The chin, 
cheeks and forehead of a deep orange color, 
but in the females much paler than in the other 
fex. The neck and breaft are prettily marked 
with narrow undulated lines of afh-color and 
black ; and in the hind part of the neck is a ftrong 
mixture of ruft color: on the breaft of the male is 
a broad 
