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whitish down the shaft, and continued as a large mottled white mark, 

 occupying the whole end of the feather; under parts of the body, 

 from the breast, chestnut brown ; quills, tail, and legs, pale brown. 



A second of these differed in having a greater mixture of white 

 on the upper parts of the body and wing coverts, and some few 

 mottlings of buff on the breast ; beyond this chestnut brown, as in 

 the other, with a little mixture of white ; the thighs in both pale 

 ash-colour. 



The above two, most elegant birds, were shot in Cheshire, and 

 were in Mr. Bullock's Museum. Whether they belong to the 

 Common Partridge, as a Variety, we are unable to determine : as 

 far as the head and neck, they coincide greatly with the Mountain 

 Species, but not in any other circumstance, as the latter bird is 

 uniform in its colours, having no markings of white on any part of 

 the body. We have not been able to ascertain the sex of the above 

 described birds. 



22— DAMASCUS PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix Darnascena, Ind. Orn. ii. 646. Gm. Lin. i. 758. Bris. i. 223. B. Id. 8vo. i. 



62. Eaii, 57. 3. Will. 119. t. 29. Klein, 114. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. p. 490. Id. 



Pig. fy Gall. iii. 392. Variety. 

 La petite Perdrix grise, Buf. ii. 417. 

 Damascus Partridge, Gen. Syn. iv. 764. Will. Engl. 167. pi. 24. 



THIS differs from the Common Species in being considerably 

 smaller, the size between that and a Quail. The bill as in the 

 Partridge ; forehead and throat pale buff brown ; the back marked 

 somewhat like that of the Partridge, with mottlings aud streaks, 

 similar to those of the Quail ; behind the eye a red caruncle ; tail 

 pale, mottled ; legs brown, formed like those of the Partridge. 



Found in various parts of France, and there called the Half 

 Partridge ; is sometimes seen in large flocks, passing through Brie, 

 and other parts, on its passage elsewhere. Buffon mentions, that 



