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ORD. V. GEN. III. PARTRIDGE. 



SPE. II. GUERNSEY PARTRIDGE. 

 PI. 138. 



Tetrao rufus. Lin. Syft. I. p. 276. 



La Perdrix rouge. Brif. Om. I. p. 236. 



This fpecies is about the fize of the foregoing. The bill, eyes, and legs, 

 are red : head, breaft, and belly, afh colour, inclining to red on the breaft, back 

 part of the head and neck, and above the fhoulders, the red of the laft-men- 

 tioned part being deepeft : the chin and throat are white, encircled with black : 

 behind the eye is a ftreak of white : the lower part of the neck fpotted with 

 black : the fides marked with ftreaks of white, black, and deep orange colour : 

 the back and upper parts are greyifh brown : the quill feathers edged with 

 dufky yellow : at the back part of the kg a blunt fpur or knob. 



The female differs very little, except in wanting the fpur. 



This fpecies inhabits the warmer parts of Europe •, is plentiful in France, 

 as it is in our iflands of Guernfey and Jerfey : and now and then is met with 

 in England, where perhaps it may hereafter become more common, though 

 fome fuppofe it requires more warmth than it meets with in this climate. It 

 lays its eggs on the ground, like the common partridge, fometimes as far as 

 fixteen or feventeen in number, of a whitifh colour marked with numerous fpots 

 of red. 



