2o8 PARTRIDGE. Cha I!. 



V. The P A R T R I D G E. 

 ** With naked Lees. 



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La. Ferdris grife ou Gouache. Tetrao Perdrix. Lin.Jyfl. lyS. 



Belon av, 257- Rapphona. Faun. Succ./p. 205. 



Perdix (Waldhun) Gefner anj. 'i^^.Ytx^x\x'gx\{e,.Bri£onav.'\.zny 



669. Pi. enl. 27. 



Perdix minor five cinerea. Jld. Scarna. Zinan 30; 



a'v, ii. 66. Agerhoene. Br. zoi. 



Wil. orn. 166. Rebhun. Kram. 357. 



Raii/yn. av. 57. Br. Zool. 86. plate M. 



pefcr, tirS H E male partridge weighs near fifteen ounces ; 

 J^ the female near two ounces lefs : the length to 

 the end of the tail thirteen inches ; the breadth twenty. 

 The bill is white ; the crown of- the bead is brown 

 fpotted with reddifh white. The chin, cheeks and 

 forehead of a deep orange color, but in the females 

 much paler than in the other fex. The neck and 

 bread 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 ruit color : on the 

 breaft of the male is a broad mark in form of a horfe- 

 fhoe, of a deep orange hue -, in the female it is lefs 

 diflintfl : each feather on the back is finely marked 

 with feveral femicircular lines of reddifh brown and 

 black: the fcapulars with a narrow white line along 

 their fhafts, and with black and reddifh blotchy bars 

 on their webs : the greater quil- feathers are dufky, 

 fpotted on each web with- pale red : it has eighteen 

 feathers in the tail ; the fix outmoft on each fide are 

 of a bright ruft color ; the others marked tranf- 

 verfely with irregular lines of pale reddilh brown an4 

 black : the legs are of a whitilh caft. 



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