﻿762 PARTRIDGE. 



COMMON P. 



Tetrao perdix, I'm. Syji. i. p. 277. 13. — Faun. Suec. N° 205. — Seep, ann.u 



N u 176. — Brun. N' J 201. — Mutter, N° 225. — Fri/cb. t. 1 14. — Kram. 



el. p. 357. 6.—GeorgiReife t p. 173. 

 La Perdrix grife, Br?/, orn. i. p. 219. 1. — Buf. oif. ii. p. 401. — PL en/. 27. 



(female.) 

 Common Partridge, Rati Sjn. p 57. A. 2. — Will. orn. p. 166. pi. 28. — 



./*#/«. i. pi. 27.— Br. Zoo}, i. N° 96.— Ar£l.-Zool. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description, t ENGTH thirteen inches. Bill brown : the general colour 

 of the plumage cinereous and black elegantly mixed, and 

 ftreaked down the fhaft with buff-colour: fides of the head 

 tawny : under the eyes marked with red, final], warty, excres- 

 cences ; above and behind the eye a naked red fkin * : on the 

 breaft a deep rufous crefcent, in form of an horfe-pooe : the legs 

 are greeniih white, and furnifhed with a blunt fpur, or knob, 

 behind. 

 Femalb. The female differs in having the colours not quite fo diftincT: as 



the male; in wanting the horfe-Jhoe on the breaft, and having no 

 rudiment of a fpur on the legs. 

 Place and This fpecies is found throughout Europe in the temperate 



parts, but not every where equally common ; the extremes of 

 heat and cold being equally unfavourable, as they are lefs plenty 

 in fuch parts. Frequent in the temperate parts of Ruffia and 

 Sibiria, but unknown in Lapland and Norway j- : are more rare 

 in Italy than with us, or in France-, nor probably met with fo far 

 fouth as Greece % ; and it is moft probable, as Olina \ obferves, 



* Not very confpicuous, except in old birds, f Brunnkh. 



% Ce/n'er de A<v. p. 680. |j Uccel, p. 57, 



that 



Manners. 



