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§. IV. 



The Brazilian Partridge caMed]ambu by Pifi. 



OF thefe in the Woods by the Sea^fhore are found two kinds, greater and leffer, 

 Thefe are leffer than our Europ£an Partridge, thole both for figure and bulk 

 of body and goodnefs of flefh are equal and like to ours. The feathers of both 

 all over the body are of a dark, fulvous colouiy but mingled and (potted with . s 

 dusky. 



§. V. 



The Damafcus Partridge of Aldrov. 



IN the fhortnefs, thicknefs, and roundnefs, and whole (hape of its body it ap- 

 proaches to our Partridges. The colour is folike to the leffer Partridges, that at 

 firft you can hardly diftinguifti them : But the Feet in this are in a manner yellow : The 

 Bill is alfo longer, though elfe the Bird be much lefs» 



$. VI. 



The Red4egd Partridge, Perdix ruffa Aldrov. called in Italy Coturnice 8t Coturno. 



T He Cock weighed more than thirteen ounces: His length from the tip of the 

 Bill to the end of the Claws was eighteen inches: His breadth between the 

 tips of the Wings extended twenty two. The hides of the Eyes were red: The 

 Bill almoft an inch long, and red: The Legs and Feet alfo red .: The Claws dusky: 

 The Toes as far as to the firft jpynt connected by a membrane intervening. It had fmall 

 Spurs [others had none, perhaps thefe were young ones.] The loles of the Feet were 

 of a dirty yellow. 



The Head, Neck, Back, and Rump were afti-coloured, as alfo the outer part of 

 the Thighs. The lower part of the Neck tinctured with a vinaceous 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 was a fmall black fpot. A black border beginning 

 from the Nofthrils, and produced above the Eyes encompalTes this white fpace. The 

 Craw below the black line is cinereous: The Breaft of a dilute red /inclining to yellow. 

 The feathers on the fides are painted with very beautiful colours. For the tips of 

 fbme of them are black 5 and next the black they have a trarilverle line, the (hotter 

 and nearer to the Head of a whitifh colour, the longer and more remote of a yellow: 

 Below this a black line again. Of others the tips are red, the colours we have men- 

 tioned in order fucceeding. The bottoms of all are cinereous. 



The beam- feathers in each Wing are in number twenty five, the exteriour whereof 

 are dusky, the interiour of a dark cinereous : But yet the outer edges of the third, 

 and fucceeding to the fifteenth, are of a white, tin&ured with red. The Tail is four 

 inches long, the two middle feathers being cinereous, the exteriour five on each fide 

 having their upper half red, their lower cinereous. 



It hath a large Craw, a muiculous Stomach,or Gizzard, in which diffe&ed we found 

 Caterpillars and Snails. 



The Back of the Hen is not all out fo cinereous, but rather inclines to red, the 

 middle parts of the feathers being black. The line running above the Eyes is fome- 

 what red. The Cheeks are of the fame colour with the Back : Elfe it doth not much- 

 differ from the Cock. This kind is a ftranger to England : Howbeit they fay it \4 

 found in the Ides of Jerfey and Guemfey, which are fubjed to our Ring. It is of a 

 more gentle nature than our common Partridge, and eafily made and kept tame : 

 W T hereas the common Partridge can hardly be induced to putofr his wild nature, and 

 to go out and return home again like tame fowl : Yet IhaVe been told by perfbns of 

 good credit, that a certain Sujjex man had by his induftry and application made a Co- 

 vey of Partridges fo tame, that he drave them before him upon a wager out of that 

 Country to London, though they were abfolutcly free, and had their Wings grown, 

 fo that they might if they would have made ufe of them to fly away. 



That this Bird feeds upon Snails Arijiotle hath delivered, and our experience con- 

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