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PARTRIDGE. 



PEARLED P. 



Description. 



Place. 



La Perdrix de la Chine, Sri/, era. i. p. 234. 9. pi. 28. A. f. P. 



— — perlee de la Chine, Buf. oif. ii. p. 446. 



Tetrao Chinenfis, OJb. Voy. vol. ii. p. 3Z6. 



length 



'TpHIS is a trifle bigger than the Common Partridge 



twelve inches and a half. Bill blackiih, almoft an inch 

 long : irides hazel : over the eye is a rufous ftripe, beginning at 

 the noftrils ; beneath this a broader ftreak of black,, paffing 

 through the eyes, and under the eye a white one ; befides which 

 is a fourth of black in the direction of the under mandible: 

 the crown of the head is brown, minutely fpotted with white; 

 the throat white : neck, bread, belly, fides, and vent, brown, 

 marked with round fpots of rufous and white : back and rump 

 barred rufous and brown : quills brownifh, crofTed with arcuated 

 white bands : tail brown, tranfverfely ftreaked and tipped with 

 black : legs rufous : the legs of the male furnifhed with a fpur 

 behind. 



Inhabits China *. Drawn from the life by M. Poivre. The 

 Chinefe call it Tche-cou. The bird alluded to in OJbeck feems 

 very like, if not the fame. He fays that the Chinefe of quality 

 make ufe of it, as well as the Common Quail, to warm their hands 

 in winter. 



* DuHalde, in his Hiftery of China, talks of clouds of Partridges, being thou- 

 fands in a flock; and mentions alfo Sand Partridges: but as he defcribes 

 neither, we are in the dark jn refpeft to the fpecies. 



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