﻿P.ARTRIDGE; 



75? 



Le Perdrix rouge de Madagascar, Son. Voy. Ind. vol. ii. p. 169. 



4- 

 BROWN 

 AFRICAN P. 

 O I Z E of the Common Partridge. The bill yellow : irides of a Description. 



.fine red : the general colour of the plumage dirty red brown ; 



the top of the head and hind part of the neck deepeft, and moil: 



inclined to brown : legs of a fine red, and furnifhed with two 



fpurs behind. 



Inhabits Madagascar* P^ace. 



Le Gorge-nue, Buf. oif. ii. p. 444. 



ALL that is faid of this bird is, that it is lefs variegated than 



the Francolin : the throat and fore part of the neck bare of 



feafhers, being only covered with a red fkin : the tail fpreads out 



like a fan: the legs red, and furnifhed with a double fpur, as the 



laft fpecies. 



One of thefe was alive at Paris ; but furEcient obfervation had 

 not been taken of it to be enabled to fay more than the above, 

 further than it ufed to perch. 



BARE-NECKED 

 P. 



Description. 



Tetrao Francolinus, Lin. Syji. i. p. 27c. io* __ .,,„• 



. ,. ' , / V Q n FRANCOLIN P. 



1 — orientahs Haffelq. Voy. p. 278. 43. 



Le Francolin, Brif. orn. i. p. 245. pi. 23. f. 2.— 'Buf. oif. ii. p. 438. — PL 



enl. 147. 148. 

 Francolino (Attagen Aldrov.) Rati Syn. p. 54. 4. — Olin. ut. pi. in p. 33. — 



Will. orn. p. 174. pi. 31. 

 Francolin, Tourn. Voy 4W, vol. i. pi. in p. 412. — D° in 8vo, vol. ii. pi. 1. 



p. III. — Ediu. pi. 246. — Gent. Mag. vol. xlii. pi. in p. 112. 

 Br. Muf. 



'T* HIS beautiful fpecies is as large as the Common Partridge, Description 





and meafures in length twelve inches and a quarter. The 

 10 bill 



