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COMMONT PARTRIDGE » 

 (Perdix cinerea.) 



Pe. corpore supra cinerea, rufo nigroque vario, siiltiis albicante^ 

 Jiavido, pectore cceriilescente , lineis nigris et maculis rujis varies 

 gatis, rectricibus octodecim, septem extimi utrinque, apice ci^ 

 nereis, (M'dS. maculis duabus castaneis imo pectoris.) 



Partridge with the body above grey, varied with red and black, 

 beneath yellowish white ; the breast csrulescent, variegated 

 with black lines and rufous spots 3 the tail-feathers eighteen, 

 the seven outer ones on each side tipped with cinereous. {Male 

 with two chesnut spots on the lower part of the breast.) 



Perdix cinerea. Raii. Syn. 57. a. 2. — Briss. Orn. 1. 219. 1.— 

 Lath. Lid. Orn. 2. 645. 9. — Temm. Gall. Ind.p. 728. — Nilss, 

 Orn. Suec. ].314. 



Tetrao Perdix. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 276. 13. — Linn. Faun. Suec, 

 JSFo. 205.—Gmel. Syst. Nat, 1. 757. 13. 



Perdrix grise. Biff. Ois, 2. AOl.—Bvff. PI. Enl, 27. female.— 

 Tem?n. Pig, et Gall. 3. 373. — Temm, Man. d'Orni. p. SOp. 



Common Partridge. Penn. Brit. Zool. l.gG. — Penn. Arct. Zool, 

 2.3ig.—Alb. Birds, i, pi. 27, — Lath. Gen. Syn, 4. 762. 8.— 

 Lath. Syn. Sup. 11, 279. 5. — Lextoin, Brit. Birds. 4. pi, 136. — 

 Wale, Syn, 2. pi, 184. — Pult. Cat. Dors, p, 7,-—Beiv, Brit. 

 Birds, 1. 305. — Mont. Or7i, Diet, 2. — Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup,-^ 

 Bing. Anim. Biog. 2, 260. 



Var. /3. corpore supra pectoreque castaneis cinereo-albo jusco UU" 

 dulato. 



With the body above, and breast, chesnut-grey-white, undulated 

 with brown. 



Perdix cinerea Lath, Ind. Orn, 2, 646. — Temm, Gall, Ind, 

 730. (b.) 



Perdix cinereo-alba. Briss. Orn. 1. 223. a. 

 Perdrix grise-blanche. Buff. Ois. 2, 415. — Temm, Pig, et Gall, 

 3. 399. 



Common Partridge, (a.) Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 763. 



