GUERNSEY PARTRIDGE. 



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brown ; some of the exterior ones spotted with 

 rufous on the edge, near the tip ; the lesser ones 

 varied with grey : the tail consists of fourteen grey 

 feathers ; the five lateral ones half rufous at their 

 tips : the legs are red ; the tarsi furnished with a 

 blunt knob. The female is less than the male ; the 

 plumage is less brilliant in colour : the black band 

 surrounding the white on the throat narrower, and 

 the black lunules on the sides of the body very 

 slender. It occasionally varies slightly in being 

 rather mottled with white, with the usual colours 

 paler. 



It is found in profusion throughout Turkey, the 

 Grecian Archipelago, Sicily, Naples, Italy, and 

 France ; likewise on the Alps of Switzerland and 

 Germany: it frequents the rocky and mountainous 

 parts, descending in May to breed : its eggs are 

 much esteemed ; they are white, sprinkled with 

 numerous red spots, and are sixteen or eighteen 

 in number. 



GUERNSEY PARTRIDGE. 

 (Perdix rufa.) 



Pe. corpore supra griseo-Jusco, subtus rufo, pectore cinereo, 

 gutture colloque superiore albis, Jascia nigra albo punctaid 

 cinctis, hypochondriis mtta nigra, simplici notatis, rectricibus 

 sedecim, extimis rufis. 



Partridge with the body above grey-brown 3 the breast grey ; 

 beneath rufous ; with the throat and upper part of the neck 



