﻿PARTRIDGE. 757 



Voyage *, which, he fays, is feen in large coveys, and not very ihy, 

 being frequently taken alive and tamed f . 



Tetrao bicalcaratus, Lin. Syji. i. p. 277. 15. 2. 



La Perdrix du Senegal, Brif. orn. i. p. 231. pi. 24^ f. i.—Pl. enl. 137. SENEGAL P. 



Le Bis-ergot, Buf. oif. ii. p. 443. 



A Trifle bigger than the Red Partridge : lettgth thirteen inches. Desce.iptio.n-.. 

 Bill one inch, horn-colour : the top of the head tawny r 

 from the noftrils to the eyes is a black line, which paffes over 

 them, and a little behind j over this is a rufous white band, and 

 above that a black one, palling to the hind head : the fides of 

 the head beneath the eye are white, ffreaked with black : the 

 neck tawny, marked with brown and dirty white fpots : the up- 

 per parts of the body and wings brown, tawny, and dirty white; 

 mixed : the under parts, from the bread, partly the fame, but leis : 

 tawny : the tail banded with tawny and brown : quills brown, 

 with paler fpots : legs brown, naked, furniihed with two fpurs,, 

 the one above the other, both of which are blunt. 



This inhabits Senegal; and the bird from whence- the defcrip- Piace* 



tion was taken a male. It leems to be that which Adanfon calls 



the Wood Hen % ; and, if fo, the flelh is not very good.. 



Perdix 



* Vol. ii. p. 55 r. 



t " They took faveral pairs, and, dipping them irt water,. ftrewed them with 

 " afhes, and then put them among the bufhes with their heads under their 

 " wings." Thus they ftock thofe places in which they do not breed natu. 



rally. — Id. Majfon alfo mentions two kinds of Partridges, as well as Shtails, 



as plentiful at the Cape (See Phil. Tranf. vol. lxvi. p. 306.) ; but neither of 

 them give the leaft defcription. 



X Speaking of the flelh of the Hares of Senegal, which he praifes, he adds,. 



« Ths 



