The Red'hgg'd Cartridge. Perdix RufFa. ffc-Un^U^ 



Numb. XXIX. Z*^- 



ITS Length from the tip of the Bill to the end of the Tail is 1 8 Inches ; 

 the Breadth when the Wings are extended, 2 2 Inches ; its Weight 1 4 

 Ounces ; the Ir'tdes of the Eyes red ; the Bill, Legs and Feet alfo red ; the 

 Claws dusky ; the Toes as far as the firft Joint conne6lcd by a Membrane 

 intervening ; it has fmall Spurs ; the Soles of the Feet are of a dirty yellow. 



The Head, Neck, Breaft and Rump are afli-coloured , as alfo the 

 outer Part of the Thighs ; the lower Part of the Neck and Back tinc- 

 tured with a redifli brown Colour; the Cheeks under the Eyes, and the 

 Chin to the Middle of the Throat white, yet in the very Angle of the 

 nether Chap is a fmall black Spot ; a black Border beginning from the 

 Noftrils, and produced above the Eyes encompaffes this white Space ; the 

 Neck below the black Line is cinereous ; the Breaft of a dilute red inclin- 

 ing to yellow ; the Feathers on the Sides are painted with beautiful Colours ; 

 the Tips of fome of them are black, and next the black they have tranf- 

 verfe Lines of a pale yellow ; next the yellow a redifh brown ; the Bot- - 

 toms of all are cinereous. 



The beam Feathers in each Wing are in Number x 5' ; the exterior where- 

 of are dusky ; the interior of a dark cinereous, but the outer Edges of 

 the third and fucceeding to the fifteenth, are of a white tindiured v^ith red. 

 The Tail is four Inches long ; the two middlemoft Feathers are cinereous ; 

 the exterior five on each Side have their upper half red and their lower ci- 

 nereous. It hath a large Craw and mufculous Stomach or Gizzard, in 

 which are found Caterpillars and Snails. 



This Kind is a Stranger to England^ but Is found in the Illes of Jerfey 

 and Guernfey, which arc fubjed to our King ; it is of a more gentle Nature 

 than our common Partridge^ and eafily made tame ; whereas the com- 

 mon Partridge can hardly be induced to put off his wild Nature, fo as to 

 go out and return home again like a tame Fowl : It feeds on Snails, Cater- 

 pillars, Seed of Wheat and other Grain. ^ 



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