288 PARTRIDGE. 



150 or 200 were once stopped for a whole day in their flight, attracted 

 by a call bird of the Common Sort, and thinks this a proof of their 

 affinity to that species ; yet their migrating, which the Common 

 Partridge never does, is a strong argument against the circumstance. 

 In Mr. Bullock's Museum is a fine pair of these birds, which ditfer 

 so little in plumage as not to be worth mentioning. 



Among the drawings of Mr. Dent are two birds nearly similar. 

 The plumage in general rufous brown, with some mottlings on the 

 quills ; legs dull yellow, with a small blunt spur behind. A second 

 much the same, marked on the back and wings with fine striae, and 

 a few dots of white on the latter, with the same spur on the leg. 



To the above no history was annexed. 



23.— MOUNTAIN PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix montana, Ind. Orn. ii. C46. Brls. i. 224. t. 21. f. 2. Id. 8vo. i. 62. Frisck, 



t. 114. B. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. p. 489. Id. Pig. Sf Gall. iii. 396. 

 Tetrao montanus, Gm. Lin. i. 758. 

 La Perdrix de Montague, Bnf. ii. 419. PL enl. 136. 

 Mountain Partridge, Gen. Syn. iv. 765. 



SIZE of the Common Partridge ; length ten inches and three 

 quarters. Bill red ; head, throat, and hind part of the neck reddish 

 buff-colour; fore part of the neck, breast, upper part of the belly, 

 sides, and under tail coverts pale chestnut; upper parts of the body 

 and wings chestnut, but the edges of the feathers are brownish, and 

 the back and scapulars have a mixture of grey ; the lower belly, 

 vent, and thighs are very pale butf-colour ; the tail consists of twenty 

 feathers, the six middle ones chestnut brown, with grey tips; the 

 rest pale chestnut; legs red.* 



This is said to frequent the mountainous parts of the Continent, 

 and is sometimes met with among flocks of the Common Partridge; 



* According to Brisson, the bill is grey, and the legs greyish brown. 



