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figured by Thiencmann, pi. 7, fig. 8. This figure has 

 the length, and almost the breadth of one figured as 

 Perdix saxatilis. Figs. 5, a, b, which Thienemann 

 figures of the Francolin's egg, is forty millemetres long, 

 and twenty-nine millemetres broad, (Saxatilis being 

 forty by thirty.) This in my opinion is too large. 

 My specimens are much more nearly the size of those 

 of P. cinerea. In the grain of the shell they also 

 resemble the egg of P. petrosa. They have a somewhat 

 granular surface and an isabelle white ground colour, 

 and no spots." 



The following are the measurements given by 

 Baldamus of the five European Partridges, and the 

 dimensions of their eggs: — Perdix Grceca, (Saxatilis.) — 

 Length of bird from thirty-two to thirty-five centimetres ; 

 egg, greater diameter from forty-three to forty-five 

 millemetres, lesser from twenty-two to twenty-three 

 millemetres. P. petrosa, (Barbary in B. lists.) — Bird 

 thirty-one to thirty-two centimetres; egg, greater diameter 

 thirty-nine to forty-one millemetres, lesser twenty-nine 

 to thirty-one millemetres. P. rubra, (Red-leg.) — Bird, 

 thirty to thirty-one centimetres; egg, greater diameter 

 forty to forty-one millemetres, lesser thirty to thirty 

 millemetres and a half. P. cinerea, (Grey Partridge.) 

 — Bird, thirty centimetres ; egg, greater diameter thirty- 

 three to thirty-five millemetres, lesser twenty-five to 

 twenty-six millemetres. P. francolinus. — Bird, thirty 

 centimetres; egg, greater diameter thirty-three to thirty- 

 four millemetres, lesser twenty-five to twenty-six 

 millemetres.* 



The figure of the egg of the Francolin in Badeker's 

 work is in accordance with this description of Balda- 



* Ten millemetres are one centimetre, and to bring centimetres 

 into English inches, multiply by two and divide by five. 



