272 PARTRIDGE. 



rump are crossed with alternate lines of black and yellowish white ; 

 sides of the head, chin, throat, neck, breast, and belly, black ; on 

 each jaw a streak of white, and behind the eye a large patch of the 

 same, which passes forwards in a streak over the nostrils ; round the 

 neck a collar of rusty orange ; sides of the breast and body marked 

 with white spots ; lower belly, and feathers over the thighs, crossed 

 with black lines ; under tail coverts reddish ; quills dusky, marked 

 with transverse rusty yellow spots; tail rounded, the four middle 

 feathers striped black and rusty yellow; the others with black and 

 white for two-thirds of the length, the rest to the end black; legs 

 bare of feathers, reddish, with a single spur behind. 



The female is less, irregularly mixed with blackish and rusty 

 yellow throughout ; the crown of the head very dark, and the hind 

 part of the neck, and upper parts, of a deeper colour than that be- 

 neath ; the lower belly, thighs, and vent, buff-colour, crossed with 

 lines as in the male, but more obsolete; bill and legs the same, but 

 without any spurs. 



Inhabits the warmer parts of Europe, as Spain, Italy, the Lipari 

 Islands, Sicily, and Malta, as well as others in the Mediterranean ; 

 also Barbary, and Egypt ; Aleppo, and several other parts of Asia ; 

 and in India, at Bengal. In some drawings which we have seen of 

 this bird, it is called Cola Teetur. 



The manners at large do not seem to be well known, yet they 

 may be kept in aviaries, where they produce the young very freely, 

 and feed on grain ; have a loud cry, imitating a whistle, which may 

 be heard a great way off; their flesh is much esteemed. 



A. — Length thirteen inches. Bill black ; head to the middle of 

 the neck black ; back part of the head, down the middle, and nape, 

 white and black spotted ; under the eyes, and on the ears, a large 

 patch of white ; round the neck for one inch and a half deep rust- 

 colour; body black; the back and sides of the belly marked with 



