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Tetrao bonafia, Li*. SjJ?. i. p. 275. 9.— Faun. Suec N° ijo.—Seep. am. L 

 HAZEL 6R. N ° 17$.— Brim, p. 59.— Muller, zztf.—Kram. el. p. 356. 4.— Georgi 



Reife, p. 173. 

 La Gelinote, Brif. em. i. p. 191. 3. — Buf. oif. ii. p. 233. pi. 7. — PI, enh 



474. (the male.) 475. (the female). 

 Hazelhun (Attagen of Gefner) Raii Syn. p. 55. 6.— •Will. em. p. 175. pi. 31. 

 — Artt. Zool. 



Lev. Muf. 



.©escr.iptiojj. CIZE of the Guernfey Partridge: length fourteen inches. 

 The bill is fhort and black : round the eyes bare, wrinkled, 

 and of a deep crimfon : the head a trifle crefted : the upper 

 parts of the head, neck, and body, are tranfverfely ftriated 

 with rufous brown and afh-colour, inclining moft to the laft at 

 the lower part of the back and rump : the feathers at the bafe 

 of the upper mandible black : on each fide of the noftrils a fmall 

 white fpot ; between the bill and eye another ; and a third behind 

 each eye : the chin and throat are black, furrounded by white : 

 -the fore part of the neck rufous greyj banded with black : belly 

 .and thighs more inclined to afh-colour, marked with crefcents of 

 black; towards the vent pale grey: the wing coverts are marbled 

 with rufous, powdered with brown, and mixed with black, with 

 here and there a white dafh : quills grey brown within, at 

 the tips rufous : tail compofed of fixteen feathers ; the two 

 middle ones like the back; all the others grey, marbled with 

 brown, and marked with a broad bar of black near the tip : leg9 

 and claws grey ; the fhins feathered on the fore part for half 



their length. 



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