﻿79° 



PARTRIDGE. 



36. 



MANILLA CL 



La petite Caille Je L'Ifle de Lucon, Son. Vcy. p. 54.. pi. 24.. 



Description. O I Z E of an lioufe Sparrow : length only four inches. Bill 

 dufky : top and hind part of the head black : back and 

 wings the fame, marked with oblong grey lines on the wings : 

 throat white : fides tinged with rufous : bread greyifh, tranf- 

 verfely fpotted with black : belly yellow, banded with black : 

 legs dufky. 

 Place. Inhabits the ifland of Manilla. 



"With THREE TOES. 



37- 

 GIBRALTAR Q^ 



Description. 



Place. 



Lev. Muf. 



ENGTH fix inches and a half. Bill black: crown chef- 

 nut brown, fringed with white : back the fame, barred with 

 black : wing coverts rufty brown ; in the middle of each a black 

 fpot furrounded with white, which alio ends the feathers : chin 

 and throat barred black and dufky white : breaft white, with 

 a crefcent of black on each feather, except down the middles 

 which is of a pale ruft- colour; and there is likewife a mixture of 

 this laft along with the black : belly, fides, and vent, paler, in- 

 clining to yellow : quills and tail dufky ; the laft fhort, and 

 ftriated with black and rufous brown, fringed with white : legs 

 pale : toes only three in number, all placed forwards. 



In the collection of Sir AJhton Lever, who had it from Gi- 

 braltar. 



GENERAL 



