PARTRIDGE. 291 



Inhabits Bucharia, Chiwa, and Songoria. Its note not unlike 

 the word Kakelik ; said to be a gregarious species. The above 

 description is no doubt an imperfect one, but from the colour of the 

 bill and legs, as well as the parts wherein it is said to be found, it 

 may probably be a female of the Red Partridge. 



27.— GUERNSEY PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix vufa, Ind. Orn.W. 647. /3. Mus. Adolph.'u p. 17. 



Tetrao rufus, Lin. i. 276. N. C. Pelr. xv. 448. 1. 13. Scop. i. No. 174. Kram. 357. 



5.' Gerin. iii. t. 253. 254. Faun. arag. 82. Borowsk. ii. p. 192. 

 Perdix rubra, Bris. i. 236. Id. 8vo. i. 66. Klein, Av. 115. 4. Faun. Helvet. Nat. 



Misc. pi. 1033. Tern. Man. d'Om. 307. Id. Ed. 2d. v. ii. 485. Id. Pig. $ Gall. 



v. iii. 361. Tab. Enc. Orn. p. 106. 

 Perdix ruffa, Rati, 57. A. 5. Will. 119. t. 29. 

 Perdrix rouge, Buf. ii. 431. pi. 15. Id. Sonnin. vii. p. 21. pi. 53. f. 1. PI. ent. 150. 



male. 

 Das Rothliuhn, Bechst. Deutsch. iii. p. 519. Id.Ed.W. v. 3. 1399. 

 Red-legged Partridge. Will. Engl. 167. pi. 29. 

 Guernsey Partridge, Gen. Syn.iv. p. 768. Id. Sup, p. 220. Albin,\. pi. 29. Levin's 



Birds, iii. pi. 137. Pult. Dors. 7. Orn. Diet. § Supp. Graves's Br. Ornith.m. 

 Id. Ov. Brit. pt. 1. 



THIS is also thirteen inches in length. Bill, irides, and legs as 

 in the last ; forehead grey brown ; hindhead rufous brown ; chin and 

 throat white, encircled with black, and a band of white over each 

 eye to the hindhead ; fore part of the neck, and sides cinereous, with 

 two black spots on each feather ; those of the hindhead with two 

 oblique black spots on each ; hind part of the neck rufous brown ; 

 back, wings, and rump greyish brown ; the breast pale ash-colour; 

 belly, sides, thighs, and vent rufous ; the sides marked with lunular 

 streaks of white, black, and orange; quills grey brown, the outer 

 edges yellowish ; tail composed of sixteen feathers; the four middle 

 grey brown, the next the same, but rufous on the outside ; the five 

 outer ones rufous on both sides ; legs red, and in the male a blunt 

 spur, or knob at the back part. 



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