﻿760 PARTRIDGE. 



till is duiky : irides hazel : over the eyes naked and red : the 



upper parts of the head, hind part of the neck, back, and wing 

 coverts, are variegated with blackifh and yellowifh ruft-colour j 

 but the lower part of the back and rump are crofTed with alter- 

 nate lines of black and yellowifh white : the fides of the head, 

 chin, throat and neck, breaft and belly, are black : on each jaw a 

 ftreak of white ; and behind the eye a large patch of the fame, 

 which pafies forwards in a ftreak to the noftrils : round the neck 

 is a collar of a rally orange : the fides of the breaft and body 

 ■ marked with white fpots : the lower part of the belly, and fea- 

 thers over the thighs, crofTed with black lines : the under tail co- 

 verts reddifh : quills dufky, marked with tranfverfe rufty yellow 

 fpots : tail rounded ; the four middle feathers ftriped black and 

 rufty yellow ; the others, on each fide, with black and white for 

 two thirds of the length, the reft black to the end : legs bare of 

 feathers, reddifh, and furnifhed with a fpur. 

 jF&malb. The female is lefs, and irregularly mixed with blackifh and 



rufty yellow throughout ; but in the back and tail much refem- 

 bles the male, 

 J'tAci. This elegant bird inhabits only the warmer parts of Europe, 



•viz. Spain, Italy, the Lipari IJlands, thofe of Sicily and Malta, and 

 feveral other iflands of the Mediterranean. It is likewife met 

 with in Barbary, Egypt *, Aleppo f, and feveral other parts of 

 Slfia, as far as Bengal £. 



The manners of this bird are -not wetl known, except that it 



* Hafelquijl. — Pocock. 



t About a day's journey from Aleppo, —Rufel, Ah p. 6$* 



X Edwards. 



feeds 



