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GUERNSEY PARTRIDGE. 



GREY PHALAROPE. — A name for the Coot-foot. 

 GREY PLOVER.— A name for the Grey Lapwing-. 

 GREY SANDPIPER.— A variety of the Grey Lapwing-. 

 GREY SKIT.— A name for the Water Rail. 

 GREY WAGTAIL.— A name for the Winter Wagtail. 

 GROSBEAK.— A name for the Hawfinch. 

 GROUND WREN.— A name for the Hay Bird. 

 GROUS (Jkrao, Linnaeus.) — A g-enus of birds. 

 GRUIDiE (Vigors.) — Cranes, a genus of birds (Grallatores, 

 Illiger.) 



GUERNSEY PARTRIDGE {Perdrix fiufa, Ray.) 



Tetrao rufus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 276. 12 Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 756 Ind. Orn. 2. p. 



647. 12 Perdrix Grteca, Raii, Syn. p. 57- B. 5 Will. p. 121. t. 29 Briss. 



1. p. 241. 12. t. 23. f. 1 lb. 8vo. 1. p. 67 Greek, or Red Partridge, Lath. 



Syn. 4. p. 767. 12. — Will. (Angl.) p. H9 Albin, p. 27.— Perdrix rubra, 



-Briss. 1. p. 236. 10 lb. 8vo. 1. p, 66 Raii, Syn. 1. p. 57. A. 5 Will. p. 



167. 29 — Perdrix Rouge, Buff. Ois. 2. p. 431. t. 15 — Perdrix rubra barbarica, 

 Briss. 1. p. 239. 11. — lb. 8vo. 1. p. 67 Perdrix rouge de barbarie, Buf. Ois. 



2. p. 445— Barbary Partridge, Edw. t. 70 Lath. Syn. 4. p. 770 Guernsey 



Partridge, Lewin's Br. Birds, 3. t. 137 Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 7 Flem. Br. 



Anim. p. 45 — Will. p. 167. t. 29 Albin, 1. t. 29 Lath. Syn. 4. p. 768 



Supp. p. 220 — Rural Sports, 2. p. 408. 



This bird is rather larger than the common species. Bill, irides, and 

 legs red ; the upper part of the head is red-brown ; greyish on the fore- 

 head ; chin and throat white, encircled with black ; over each eye a 

 band of white ; fore part and sides of the neck cinereous, spotted with 

 black ; back, wings, and rump, grey-brown ; breast pale ash-colour ; 

 belly rufous ; sides marked with lunular streaks of black, white, and 

 orange ; the tail composed of sixteen feathers of a rufous-colour, except 

 the six middle ones, which are more or less grey-brown. 



The habits of this species differ somewhat from the common par- 

 tridge. This frequently perches on a tree, and will breed in confine- 

 ment, which the other is never known to do. 



*Mr. Daniel says that they are now plentiful near Oxford, the Mar- 

 quis of Llertford having imported many thousand eggs, which were 

 hatched under hens, and liberated ; and so early as 1777 he says he saw 

 a covey, consisting of fourteen of these birds, several of which he shot ; 

 many coveys may be found in the neighbourhood of Ipswich, on pre- 

 served manors, where they seem to prefer the waste heathy ground to 

 corn-fields, the favourite haunts of the common species. 



It is a curious fact, that the Guernsey Partridge should be so much 

 changed in its nature, by passing the British channel from Picardy to 

 Kent, not above the third of a degree in difference of latitude, and yet, 

 prolific as they are on the south side of the channel, they become less 

 inclined to propagation, even in the same sort of soil in the north, 



