324 PARTRIDGE. 



One in the British Museum, corresponding with the above, has 

 the chin buff-colour, and the feathers of the head somewhat elon- 

 gated. In Paraguay it is called, by the Guaranis, Uru; and mostly 

 frequents deep forests, chiefly seen on the ground, rarely taking- 

 flight, unless hard pressed : it is said, that several females make one 

 common nest, on a bed of leaves, on the ground ; and that the eggs 

 are violet blue: the young follow the parents as soon as hatched, 

 like chickens. 



65. -MARYLAND PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix Marilanda, Ind. Orn. ii. 651. 



Tetrao Marilandus, Lin. i. 277. Gm. Lin. i. 761. 



Perdix Virginiana, Ind. Orn. ii. 650. 



Tetrao Virginianus, Lin. i. 277. Gm.Lin.'i. 761. Klein, 115. vi. 



Perdix borealis, Temm. Pig. fy Gall. Svo. iii. p. 436. 



novae Anglia?, Bris. i. 229. Id. 8vo. i. 64. Klein, 115. iii. 



Americana, Bris. i. 230. 7d.8vo.ii. 64. 



Perdrix de la nouvelle Angleterre, Bvf. ii. 447. 



d'Amerique, Buf. ii. 399. 



American Partridge, Phil. Trans, xvii. 992. Du Pratz, ii. 86. 

 Virginian Partridge, Gen. Syn. iv. 777. Cates. Car. iii. pi. 12. 

 New England Partridge, Albin, i. pi. 28. Brown, Jam. 471. 



Maryland Partridge, Gen. Syn.iv. 778. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 185. Amer. Orn. vi. p. 

 21. pi. 47. f. 2. 



LENGTH nine inches and a half, breadth fourteen and a half. 

 Rill stout, black; irides yellow; the head and all the upper parts are 

 rufous brown, minutely mottled with black, and some of the scapu- 

 lars have a yellow streak on them ; the forehead white, passing in a 

 streak over each eye, and behind it, some way down the neck, at 

 the back part; above this white streak the feathers are dusky black; 

 chin and throat white, bounded all round by dusky black, which is 

 deeper before, and shaped like a crescent ; the under parts of the 

 body dirty yellowish white, marked with fine curved black lines; 

 sides, thighs, and vent, mixed with chestnut; legs brown; some birds 



