﻿764 PARTRIDGE. 



what puts it beyond doubt is^ that it is found among flocks of 



the Common Partridge, and pairs with that bird. 



Other Buffon mentions alfo, that ten or twelve Partridges wholly 



Varieties. .-.."■ r u c u r 



White, have been ieen at once among others or the common iort; 



and that thefe had the pupil of the eye red, as is common to the 



White Hare, Rat, Ferret, &c. In the Leverian Mufeum is one 



wholly of a pale cream-colour. A fecond variety, in the fame 



place, has the head and half of the neck brown ifli aih-colour, 



marked with darker ftreaks : round the neck a white collar : the 



under parts are alfo wholly white : the creft of the bird like the 



Common Partridge, but very pale. 



A further variety, wholly of a dun colour. And a fourth, much 



variegated, and very beautiful: the crown and' nape brown, 



marked with rufous fpots : between the eyes, the chin, and 



throat, of this laft colour : the fore part of the neck and bread 



cinereous, minutely fpeckled with black : on the bread an horfe- 



Jhoe : belly and vent yellowifh white : the upper parts not unlike 



this bird in common, but more elegantly variegated. 



Le Perdrix de Damas, Brif. orn. i. p. 223. B. 

 DAMASCUS P. La petite Perdrix grife, Buf.oi/.u. p. 417. 



Perdrix Damafcena, Aldro<v. (Damafcus Partridge.) — Rail Syn. p. 57. 3.— 

 Will. orn. p. 167. 



Description. HP HIS differs very little from the Common Partridge, except 

 the fize, being much fmaller : the bill is alfo longer than in 

 that fpecies ; and the legs are yellow. 

 Place. This fort is fometimes feen in large flocks, pafTing through 



Brie 3 and other parts of France, on its paflage elfewhere. 



Buffon 



