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PARTRIDGE. 



Place. 



with black : wing coverts rufous brown and black : quills dull 

 brown, edged with rufous : tail plain dull brown : legs brown. 



Inhabits America, where it perches on trees, frequenting the 

 woody rather than the open fpots. 



r- MARYLAND Tetrao MariIandus ' Lin > hft- »• P- 2 77- I 7- 



p. La Pedrix de la Nouvelle Angleterre, Brif. orn. i. p. 229. 6. — Buf. oif. 11. 



p. 447. 



New England Partridge, Albin. i. pi. 28. — Brown. Jam. p. 471. — ArQ. Z00L 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf, 



Description. T ESS than our Partridge. Bill ftoUt, black : irides yellow ; 

 head, and all the upper parts, rufous brown, minutely 

 mottled with black, and fome of the fcapulars have a ftreak of 

 yellow on them : the forehead is white, which divides, and forms 

 a ftreak of the fame over each eye, paffing behind it, and fome 

 way down the neck at the back part: above this white ftreak the 

 feathers are dufky black : the chin and throat are white, bounded 

 all round by dufky black, which is deepeft before, and ftiaped 

 like a crefcent : the under parts of the body are dirty yellowifh 

 white, marked with curved black lines : the fides, thighs, and 

 vent, mixed with chefnut : legs brown. In fome birds there is 

 a mixture of white on each fide of the neck backwards j and the 

 black crefcent on the fore part of the neck deeper, and of a 

 darker colour. 



The hen fcarcely differs from the cock, except that the chin b 

 buff- coloured. 



This fpecies is found in America, from Eafi Florida to Nova 

 Scotia, to which laft place it migrates in fpring, and breeds all 



over 



Female. 



Place and 

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