PARTRIDGE. 283 



20.— COMMON PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix cinerea, hid. Orn. ii. 645. Bris.\. 219. Id. 8vo. i. 61. Rail, 57. A. 2. J77//. 



118. t. 28. .KVein, Av. 114. Ttf. 5<em. 25. t. 26. f. 2. a. b. Id. Ov. 32. t. 15. 



f. 5. Tern. Man. d'Om. 309. Id. Ed. ii. p. 488. Id. Pig. Sf Gall. v. iii. 378. 

 Tetrao Perdix, Lin. i. 276. Faun. suec. No. 205. Gm. Lin. i. 757. Scop. i. No. 175. 



Brim. No. 201. Muller, No! 225. JVwcA, t. 114. Kramer, 357. 6. Geo^i, 



173. Schcef. El. Orn. t. 54. Faun. Arab. p. vii. 11. Faun. Arag. 82. Borowsk. 



ii. 193. 9. T^aan. ifeftxtf. Germ. iii. t. 249. Sep. Fog-, ii. t. 96, 97. 

 La Perdyix grise, Buf. ii. 401. PI. enl. 27. — Female. 

 Repliuhn, Gunth Nest.u. Ey. t. 46. Naturf.-x.vW. 72. 

 Das gemeine Rebhuhn, Beehst. Deutsch. iii. 527. Id. Ed. 2d, iii. p. 1361. Schmid, 



Fog. t. 91 . 

 Starna, Zinnan. Uov. 30. t. 3. f. 8. Cet. Uc. Sard. 114. Olin. Uc. t. p. 57. 

 Common Partridge, Gen. Syn. iv. 762. Id. Sup. ii. 279. Br. Zool. i. No. 96. Id. 



fol. 86. pi. M. Id. Ed. 1812. i. 363. Arct. Zool. ii. 319. A. Will. Engl. 166. 



pi. 28. Albin, i. pi. 27. Bewick, i. pi. p. 305. Lewin, Birds, iv. pi. 136. /rf. 



pi. xxii. f. 1. — the egg. Walcot, Birds, ii. pi. 1S4. Pult. Dors. p. 7. Graves, 



Br. Ornith. vol. ii. Id. Ovar. p. 31. Rural Sports, ii. pi. in p. 401. & 406. Orn. 



Diet, fy Supp. 



LENGTH thirteen inches. Bill brown ; general colour of the 

 plumage cinereous and black elegantly mixed, and streaked down 

 the shaft with buff-colour ; sides of the head tawny ; under the eyes 

 some small, warty, red excrescences ; above and behind the eye a 

 naked red skin;* on the breast a deep rufous crescent, in form of a 

 horse-shoe; legs greenish white, with a blunt spur, or knob behind. 

 The female differs, in having the colours not quite so distinct as in 

 the male, especially about the head ; and very young birds are 

 without the horse-shoe on the breast, but gain it by degrees ; for 

 after the second or third year both sexes seem to be much alike in 

 that particular; the legs, however, at all times are without the spur 

 behind. The male certainly obtains the mark on the breast before 

 the female, and perhaps at all times it is larger, and better defined, 



* Not very conspicuous, except in old birds. 

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