﻿770 PARTRIDGE. 



•Red Partridges are often ufed as we do Cocks, for the rational 

 amufement of butchering each other. This paftime is now com- 

 mon in the IJle of Cyprus. 



I2> La Perdrix rouge de Barbarie, Brif. orn. i. p. 239. 11. — Buf. oif. ii. p. 44c. 



Var. B. Red-legged Partridge from Barbary, Edw. pi. 70. 



BARBARY P. Barbary Partridge, Shaw's Tra-v. p. 300 ? 



Description. ESS than the Common Partridge: length twelve inches 



and a half. Bill fcarlet : eyes hazel: eyelids, and round 

 the eye, fearlet : top of the head bright chefnut, paffing down 

 to the back : fides of the head, and throat, light blueifh afh 1 

 behind the ears a dufky fpot : round the neck a chefnut ring r 

 fpotted with white : fhoulders blue, mixed with brown : rump, 

 and middle tail feathers, afh-coloured ; the fide feathers half 

 afh, half dirty orange : the fides of the body covered with beau- 

 tiful feathers, variegated with orange and black : fore part of the 

 neck afh-colour : breaft rofe-colour : belly, thighs, and vent, 

 pale brown : the legs are red ; the claws brown - 3 and in the 

 male a blunt fpur as in the others. 

 Place. This bird came from Santa Cruz in Barbary. Befides thefe 



varieties, BriJJon * mentions one of a rufous white colour : the 

 crown of the head rufous brown : and the fides banded with 

 rufous f . 



* Vol. i. p. 328. A. 



f Saleme mentions flocks of Partridges at Berry and Sologne, which were en- 

 tirely white, except the top of the head ; but the white had a dirty yellowifb, 

 tinge. His birds were eighteen inches in length, twenty-two in breadth, and 

 weighed thirteen ounces. See Ornith. p. 147. 



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