58 THE GREY PARTRIDGE. 



The following are dimensions of adults : — 



Males. — Length, 11*6 to 13*4; expanse, 17*4 to 20*0; wing, 

 5*3 to 6*0 ; tail from vent, 3*35 to 4*0; tarsus, 1*4 to 17; bill 

 from gape, 0*87 to 0*96 ; weight, 9 ozs. to 12 ozs. 



Females. — Length, 10*2 to 11*9; expanse, 165 to 18*3 ; wing, 

 5*0 to 5*68 ; tail from vent, 3*2 to 375 ; tarsus, 1*37 to 1*58 ; bill 

 from gape, 075 to 0*89 ; weight, 7 ozs. to 11 ozs. 



The legs are bright red ; the feet somewhat dingier ; the claws 

 pinkish brown ; the spur, in the male, pink at base, brown at 

 tip ; the irides are dark brown, with a row of tiny whitish 

 feathers at the edges of the lids ; the rest of the skin round 

 the eye greenish grey ; bill dusky brown or blackish ; lower 

 mandible and gape paler, in some whitish, in some a dingy 

 greenish grey. 



The PLATE is fair, but the general colouring is rather too bright, 

 the barring on the breast is somewhat too coarse, the bills are not 

 nearly dark enough, and the feet should be more dingy. 



In some specimens the throat, instead of being a fawny white, 

 is a decided rufous, and occasionally specimens are met with in 

 which this part is ferruginous, as figured by Temminck. 



In some parts of the country the birds are altogether greyer 

 and paler than the specimens we have figured. 



