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Tetrao rufus, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 276. 12. — Kram. el. p. 357. 51 I2t 



La Bartavelle Brif. orn. i. p. 241. 12. pi. 23. f. 1. — Buf. oif. ii. p. 420. — QREEK P. 



PI. enl. 23 ' . 

 Perdix Graeca, feu ruffa major, Rati Syn. p. 57. A. 5. 

 Greek Partridge, or Great Red Partridge, Wilt. orn. p. 169. 

 Red Partridge, Albin. p. 27. (the defcription only). 



'T'HIS is much bigger than the Common Partridge, and thir- Description* 



teen inches in length. Bill, eyelids, and irides, red : the 

 upper part of the head, the neck, breaft, and all the upper parts 

 of the body, are cinereous, tinged on the back and breaft with, 

 jufous : the cheeks, throat, and fore part of the neck, white, 

 encircled quite round with a collar of black, which begins at the 

 noftrils, and paries through the eyes : from the belly to the vent 

 the colour is yellowifh, but the fides are beautifully variegated 

 with orange and black crefcents : the quills are brown ; fome 

 of the outer ones fpotted with rufous on the edge, near the tip, 

 and the lelTer marked -with grey : the tail confifts of fourteen 

 cinereous feathers ; the five outer ones have the end half rufous : 

 -the legs are red ; the hind part furnifhed with a blunt knob or 

 fpur. 



This fpecies is found in plenty in the Cyclades iflands in the Place ak*> 

 Archipelago, in Greece, and efpecially in the ifiand of Candia, Manors.' 

 though fometimes met with in Italy and the Alps. Thefe fre- 

 quent the rocky and mountainous parts, coming downwards in 

 May to breed; laying their eggs on the bare ground, under fome 

 ftone, to the number of fixteen or eighteen, which are white, 

 fpeckled with final 1 numerous red fpots; they are reckoned very 

 good to eat, and the white is faid not to harden in boiling. 



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