﻿PARTRIDGE. 



777 



ftarted, fly with a loud noife (a ftrong character of our Partridge). 

 The natives call them Mams. One in the Britijh Mujeum not 

 ill correfponds with the above defcription, except that the chin 

 is buff-colour, and the feathers of the head rather elongated. 

 Perhaps a male bird* 



Br. Muf. 



IZR between the Partridge and Quail: length eleven inches 

 and a half: general colour of the plumage a beautiful deep 

 green, inclining to dufky about the head : the bill pale red, a 

 little bent at the end: between the bill and eye bare, and reddifh : 

 beneath and behind the eye the fame : the tail, thighs, and vent, 

 dufky : the wings are of a fine reddifh tawny brown, a little 

 mottled with black j the quills paled : legs pale red : hind toe 

 without a claw. 



This I met with in the Britijh Mujeum, but without any hiftory 

 annexed. 



21. 



GREEN P. 

 Pl, LXVII. 



Description. 



Tetrao Virginianus, Lin. Syji. i. p. 277. 16. 

 La Perdrix d'Amerique, Brif. orn. i. p. 230. 

 American Partridge, Catejb. Car. iii. pl. 12. 



22. 

 VIRGINIA P. 



CMALLER than the Common Partridge. Bill black: irides Description. 





red : fides of the head and throat yellowifh white : on each 

 fide of the head three blackifh bands ; one above, a fecond under 

 the eye, and a third beginning beneath the throat, and tending 

 toward the back part of the head, forming a kind of collar : the 

 top of the head, neck, back, and rump, rufous brown, variegated 

 Vol. II. S G with 



