PARTRIDGE. 289 



it seems an intermediate link between that and the Red Species, but 

 is truly neither, as the first has 18 and the other 16 feathers only in 

 tail. M. Temminck considers this as a Variety of the Common 

 Partridge. 



24— RED PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix rufa, Ind. Orn. i. 647. 



saxatilis, Tern. Man. d'Orn. 305. Id. Ed. ii. 484. Id. Pig. $ Gall. v. iii. 348. 



Tetrao rufus, Lin.i. 276. Gm. Lin.\. 756. Kramer, 357. Faun.arag. 82. Borouisk. 



ii. 192. Gerin. iii. 256. Faun. Hehet. Scop. i. No. 174. 

 Perdix Grseca, Bris. i. 241. t. 23. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 67. Rati, 57. A. 5. Will. 121. 



t. 29. 

 La Bartavelle, Bnf. ii. 420. Id. Sonnin. vii. p. 5. pi. 53. f. 2. Tab. Enc. Orn. 206. 



pi. 94. f. 4. PL enl. 231. Temtn. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. iii. 340. 

 Der Griechische Rothhuhn, Bechst. Deut. iii. 525. Id. Ed. 2d. iii. 1393. t. 43. f. 2. 



Frisch, t. 117. 

 Pernice, Zinnan. Uov. 29. t. 3. f. 7. 

 Greek, or Red Partridge, Gen. Syn. iv. 767. Will. Engl. 169. Albin, i. 27.— the 



description. 



THIS is bigger than the Common Partridge; length thirteen 

 inches. Bill, eyelids, and irides, red ; the upper part of the head, 

 the neck, breast, and all the upper parts of the body cinereous, 

 tinged on the back and breast with rufous; cheeks, throat, and neck 

 before, white, encircled with a collar of black, which begins at the 

 nostrils, and passes through the eyes; from the belly to the vent 

 yellowish ; sides beautifully variegated with orange and black cres- 

 cents ; quills brown ; some of the outer ones spotted rufous on the 

 edge, near the tip, and the lesser marked with grey; the tail has 

 fourteen cinereous feathers, the four middle of one colour, the others 

 have the end half rufous; legs red, the hind part furnished with 

 a blunt knob or spur : the plumage is much the same in the female, 

 but without the spur. 



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