﻿77* PARTRIDGE. 



colour of the plumage brown, yellowifh, and fulvous, mixed, but 

 the greateft part of the head and neck is fulvous, marked with 

 grey and white fpots ; and the upper part of the head, the throat, 

 and fides, are fpotted with black-: wings grey, fpotted with 

 fulvous and white above ; beneath cinereous : legs pale red. 

 Place. Inhabits the more temperate parts of Mexico ; and the flefh 



accounted very good to eat. 



•GUIAN4 P ^ e ^ ocr0 ' ou P er drix de la Guiane, Buf. oif. iv, p. 513 ? 



Partridge of Guiana, Bauer. Guian. p. 177.? 



Description. CIZE of our Common Partridge : length eleven inches. Bill 

 brown : round the eyes red warty excrefcences : through the 

 eye, and behind it, a pale rufous ftreak: the upper part of the 

 plumage rufous brown: the exterior webs of the fcapulars mottled 

 with aih-colour : wing coverts mottled with brownifh afh-co- 

 lour : the back itfelf cinereous brown, 'marked with blackifli 

 dots : the throat cinereous : breaft cinereous brown, marked 

 with obfeure paler bars : the belly pale orange brown : the 

 quills have the outer webs fpotted with rufous : legs yellow 

 brown. 

 Place. From Cayenne or Guiana, as I faw it in a collection from the 



laft-named place. 



It is probable, that the bird referred to in Buffon may be this 

 fpecies ; for he merely fays, that it is like our Partridge, even 

 to the lill and legs, although he ranks it with the reft of his 

 Tinamous. I am not fo clear about that of Bancroft, as he fays 

 it is near twice the fize of ours : he adds, that they run on the 

 ground, and fkulk among the bufhes, like a Quail; and when 



ftarted, 



