BIRDS. GALLINYE. 31. Perdix, 51 



tail-feathers white, the rest black more or less tipt 

 with white. 



Ftarmigan. Br. Zool. t. 43. Levuin t. 135. Donovan t. 12. 



length 15 inches : extent 23 : iveight 19 ounces. 

 Bill black : iris hazel : plumage pale brown or ash-colour, crossed 

 with fmall dusky fpots and bars : head and neck with broad bars of 

 black, ferruginous, and white : belly white : wings white, the shafts 

 of the greater quills black : tail-coverts white, reaching to the end 

 of the tail, and concealing it when clofcd : legs and toes covered 

 with white down. In winter the plumage changes to pure white, 

 except the shafts of the wings and tail, and a black fpot in the 

 male between the bill and the eye. 



144. T. scoticus. Tawny-red, with transverse black lines 

 and spots : 6 outer tail-feathers each side entirely 

 blackish : over the eyes a naked scarlet fringed 

 membrane. 



Red Grous. Br. Zool. t. 43. Lewin t. 136. Walcot t. 183. 



Length 16 inches : extent 26 inches : weight near 20 ounces. 

 Bill black: iris hazel: nostrils covered with black and ferruginoi?.-, 

 ' feathers ; at the bafe of the lower mandible a white fpot : head and 

 neck pale tawny, with black lines : back and fcapulars deeper tawny ; 

 breast and belly dull purplish-blown, crossed with minute dusky 

 lines : 4 middle tail-feathers with black and red bars : legs clothed 

 below the knees with white down. 



31. PERDIX. Partridge. 



145. P. cinerea. Cinereous, with black, rufous, and white 

 lines : behind the eyes a naked red skin : on the 

 breast a deep chesnut patch : outer tail-feathers 

 bright chesnut. 



Common Partridge. Lewin t. 137. Jlbin t. 27. Walcot, t, 184. 



Length 13 inches : extent 20 : weight nearly 35 ounces. 

 Bill brown: iris hazel : head reddish-brown : plumage grey, crossed 

 with black and bay lines ; the feathers of the back and wing- 

 coverts with a white line down the middle: breast with a horfe- 

 shoe-like chefnut mark : greater quills dusky, with reddish spots 

 . on each web : 6 outmost tail-feoikers each side ferruginous tipt 

 with white, the rest like the back : legs of the male with a blunt 

 fpur. Female, head duller : cheeks greyish : fpot on the breast 

 white the first year, dull chesnut the fecond, obfolete the third. 



146. R. rvfa. Legs and bill red : through the eyes a 

 white stripe : throat white, with a black collar 

 spotted with white. 



Red-legged Partridge, Lewin L 138. Jlbin t. 29. 



Not uncommon in Norfolk and Suffolk, and rather larger than 

 the last. Bill and iris red : front greyish : head and breast reddish : 

 chin white ; sides and lower part of the neck fpotted with black : 

 back, wings and rump grey-brown : sides with crelcent-like ftripes of 

 black white and orange : quill-feather s edged w 7 ith dull yellow : 

 6 outer tail-feathers rufous, the middle-ones grey-brow r n : vent pale 

 rufous : legj, of the male, with a blunt fpur. 



147. P. Cotuinix. Variegated grey, yellow, brown and 

 white; beneath pale, reddish-white: down the crown 

 and over the eyes a yellowish white streak : tail- 

 feathers with a rufous margin and crescent. 



Quail, Lewin t. 139. Jlbin t. 30. Walcot. t. 185. 



Length 7 inches and a half : extent 14 : weight 

 Bill dusky : iris hazel, becoming yellow : head ferruginous fpotted 

 with black, the crown divided by a yellow-white line: chin and 

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