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749' 



Place a«d 



Manners.. 



The female is paler on the upper parts, and more variegated': Female. 

 wants the black on the throat, and the two middle tail feathers 

 not fo long in proportion ; it has alfo on the throat two tranf- 

 verfe lines of black, bounding the upper part of the orange- 

 colour. 



This bird inhabits moft of the warmer parts of Europe, a.s 

 the fouth of France, Spain, and Italy ; in Africa, as Barbary and 

 Senegal ; alfo frequent in Afia, and is a very beautiful fpe- 

 c-ies, efpecially the. male. A few of thefe are found in all times 

 ^t' Aleppo; but they come in plenty from the deferts of Arabia. 

 and Syria, in May and June, in which feafon fo great numbers 

 have been caught at one draw of the net, that an afs has been 

 loaded with them * ; but they are food only for the natives, for 

 their flefh is fo hard and dry that the Europeans never eat 

 them.. 



Tetrao Senegallusj Lin. Mantijfc 1 77 1 . p. 526... 

 La Gelinotte de Senegal, PL enl. 130- 



r T^ HI'S is fmaller than the former, being fcarce twelve inches 

 in length. The bill is dufky : general colour of the plu- 

 mage pale tawny red : over the eye a blueifh ftreak: chin and 

 throat yellow : fore part of the neck and breaft mottled with 

 pale blue : the wing coverts marked with dufky fpots ; and the 

 fecondaries, and ends of the larger quills, dufky : the two middle 

 tail feathers longer than the others, as in the Pin-tailed ; the reft 

 ihorten by degrees, and much the fame in colour as in that 



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Description; 



* Hi/1. o/JUffo.—lfi plenty about the pyramids and other deferted places. 

 The Arabian name is Kpta,~HaJJilq, 



bird.; 



