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been seen at once among others of the Common Sort;* and that 

 these had the pupil of the eye red, as in the white hare, rat, ferret, 

 &c. It is also on record, that out of a covey of eight birds, at 

 H. B. Barnard's Esq. in South Cave, four were of a pure white, 

 and three were pied ; also four entirely white were taken alive out of 

 one covey, at Powderham, in Devonshire, in possession of Lord 

 Courtnay ; independent of many single birds which we have met 

 with, and heard of in other places. 



A Partridge appearing to be a Variety of the Common Species 

 is met with in India, at least the plumage seems to be much the 

 same ; the bill is a trifle longer, and rather hooked towards the tip ; 

 the head much like the Common one, but the back more beau- 

 tifully variegated, and the colours brighter ; all beneath from the 

 chin dusky pale white, crossed with numerous fine dusky lines, 

 which grow broader as they are more backwards ; the tail as usual 

 in every respect, consisting of sixteen feathers, ferruginous, except 

 the four middle ones, which are like the back, and all of them 

 dusky at the ends ; legs dull red, with a longish, and sharp spur 

 placed high up. In one of the drawings of Sir J. Anstruther, this 

 is called Gooria Teetur. 



The Partridge will now and then mix with our domestic poultry, 

 and in one instance a female had attached herself to a Bantam Cock, 

 paying daily visits to the poultry yard for the purpose, but the pro- 

 duce from this attachment was not known. 



21.— CHESHIRE PARTRIDGE. 



THIS bird is somewhat larger than our Common Partridge. The 

 bill black ; head and neck, to the breast, brownish buff-colour; the 

 ear feathers much tufted, and standing out as in an old bird of the 

 Common Sort ; body, and wing coverts tawny brown, each feather 



* It is said that out of a covey of eight birds, four were of a clear white, and three pied, 

 taken near Market Weighton. — Rural Sports. 



