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MOUNTAIN PARTRIDGE. 



of such hatchings are always a puny race, seldom 

 surviving the rigours of the winter. 



Many instances of the docility of these birds are 

 related, and it is stated by Willoughby, that a cer- 

 tain Sussex man had, by his industry, made a covey 

 of them so tame that he drove them before him, 

 upon a wager, from the country to London, though 

 they were quite free, and had their wings grown. 

 Dr. Leach has lately communicated to me another 

 instance of their docility : General Buckley of 

 Cobham has a brood that were hatched beneath a 

 hen, and are so tame as regularly to come and be 

 fed, which they do even at this j)resent time, Oc- 

 tober 1818. 



MOUNTAIN PARTRIDGE. 

 (Perdix montana.) 



Pe. dilute castanea, capite colloque sicpremo fulms, rectricibus 



septem extimis pallide castaneis. 

 Pale chesnut Partridge, with the head and upper part of the 



neck fulvous ; the seven outer tail-feathers pale chesnut. 

 Perdix montana. Lath, Ind. Orn. 2. 646. 11. — Briss, Orn, 1. 



222. 2. pi. 21. f, 2. 

 Perdix cinerea var. a. Temm. Gall. Ind. p. 730. 

 Tetrao montanus. Gmel. Syst, Nat. 1. 758. 33. 

 La Perdrix de Montagne. Buff. Ois. 2. p. 4 19. — B?(ff. PI. Enl. 



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