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12. Tetrao rufus, Lin. Syjt. i. p. 276. 12.— N. C. Petrop. vol. xv. p. 448. t. 1 3. 



Var. A. — S f „^. an „ n j, N° 17^. — Kram. el. p. 357. 5. 



GUERNSEY P. La p erdrix roug6j ^ r y or>li ;, p , 236< 10 .—Buf. 0; y; £. p . 4.3 1# pi, i 5 ._ 



iV. «//. 150. (the male). 

 Perdix ruffa, Red-legged Partridge, Rail Syn. p. 57. A. 5. — Will. orn. p. 

 167. pi. 29. — Albin. i. pi. 29. 



£r. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. 'IP HIS is fmaller than the laft : length thirteen inches. The 

 bill, irides, and legs, are like that bird : the forehead is 

 grey brown : the hind head rufous brown : the chin and throat 

 white, encircled with black, like the laft bird ; added to which is 

 a band of white over each eye to the hind head : the fore part of 

 the neck, and fides of it, are cinereous, with two fpots of black 

 on each feather ; thofe of the hind head have two oblique black 

 fpots on each : hind part of the neck rufous brown : the back, 

 wings, and rump, greyifh brown : the breaft pale afh colour : 

 belly, 'fides, thighs, and vent, rufous ; the fides marked with 

 lunular ftreaks of white, black, and orange: quills grey brown, 

 with the outer edges yellowifh : the tail compofed of fixteen 

 feathers ; the four middle ones grey brown ; the next on each 

 fide the fame, but rufous on the outfide; the five outer ones 

 rufous on both fides : the male only has the blunt knob or fpur 

 behind the legs. 

 Place and This fpecies is found in various parts of Europe, Afia, and 



Manners. Africa; in many parts of Germany *, France, and Italy, ifiands 

 of Madeira f, Guernfey, and Jerfey ; and now and then met with 



* Kramer remarks that none of the forts are found in Aitftria. ' 

 + Forjl. Fey. i. p. 26. — He mentions likewife that they are in the ifland of 

 St. Helena,— Foy. vol. ii. p. 568. 



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