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Buffon mentions, that one hundred and fifty, or two hundred, 

 of thefe birds were once flopped for a whole day on their paf- 

 fage, attracted by a call-bird of the common kind ; and draws 

 this as one ftrong proof of their affinity to that fpecies : yet their 

 migrating, which the other never does, feems to prove as ftrongly 

 againfl: but this cannot be deteimined till the bird is better 

 known. 



La Perdrixde Montagne, Brif, ern. i. p. 224. pi. 21. f. z. — Buf. elf. ii. p. M0UN TAIN P 

 419. — PI. enl. 136. — Fri/cb. pi. 114, B. 



C I Z E of the Common Partridge : length ten inches and three Description. 



quarters. Bill rtd : head, throat, and hind part of the neck, 

 reddifh buff-colour : fore part of the neck, breaft, upper part of 

 the belly, fides, and under tail coverts, pale chefnut : the up- 

 per parts of the body and wings are likewife chefnut ■, but the 

 edges of the -feathers are brownifh, and the back and fcapulars 

 have a mixture of grey : the lower belly, vent, and thighs, arc 

 very pale buff-colour: the tail confifts of twenty feathers ; the 

 fix middle ones are chefnut brown, with grey tips ; the feven on 

 each fide pale chefnut : legs red *. 



This frequents the mountainous parts on the continent, and is 

 fometimes met with among flocks of the Common Partridges. It 

 feems an intermediate fpecies between that and the Red Par- 

 tridge, but is truly neither, as the firft has eighteen and the fe- 

 cond fixteen feathers only in the tail. 



Place; 



* According to Brijfin, the bill is grey, and the legs grejiji? hrown. 



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