290 PARTRIDGE. 



Inhabits the Cyclades Islands, in the Archipelago ; in Greece ; 

 and especially in the Island of Candia ; though sometimes met with 

 in Italy and the Alps; frequents the rocky and mountainous parts, 

 coming to the vallies to breed ; like others, they lay their eggs on the 

 bare ground, under some stone, in number of 16 or 18; which are 

 white, speckled with small, numerous red spots ; they are reckoned 

 good eating, and the white said not to harden in boiling. 



25.— CASPIAN PARTRIDGE. 



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Perdix Caspia, Ind. Orn.u. 655. 



Tetrao Caspius, Gm. Lin. i. 762. S. G. Gmel. It. iv. 67. t. 10. 



Caspian Partridge, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 283. 



BILL olive-brown ; nostrils, eyelids and orbits bare, and yellow ;# 

 eyes black ; plumage in general cinereous grey, spotted with reddish 

 brown ; ends of the quills, and half the tail white ; legs yellow, not 

 feathered, and without a spur. 



Inhabits Astrabad, Ghilan, and other parts of Persia, where it 

 is sufficiently common. This, and the Kakelik, supposed by M. 

 Temminck to be Varieties of the Red Species, but the Caspian one 

 is said to be as big as a Goose.t 



26— KAKELIK PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix Kakelik, Ind. Orn. ii. 655. 



Tetrao Kakelik, Gm. Lin. i. 762. Falck. It. iii. 390. 



SIZE of a Powter Pigeon. Bill, eyelids, and legs, crimson ; 

 breast cinereous ; back undulated with white and ash-colour. 



* In the Engraving the naked part about the eye continues on towards the nape. 

 f " Er soil, wann er vollig erwachsen ist, die grosse einer gemeinen Gans erreichen." — 

 Gmel. It. 



