348 



GUERNSEY PARTRIDGE. 



white, bounded by a black fascia, spotted with white j the 

 hypochondria marked with a simple black vitta^ the tail-fea- 

 thers sixteen, the outer ones rufous. 



Perdix rufa. Raii. Sj/n. p. 57. a. 5. — Will. Orn.p. I67. — Lath. 

 Ind. Orn. 2. 647. 12. /3. 



Perdix rubra. Briss. Orn. 1. 236. 10. — Temm. Gall. Ind. p. 720. 



Tetrao rufus. Lina. Syst. Nat. 1. 276. 12. — Gmel. Syst, Nat,. 

 1. 756. 12. 



Perdrix rouge. Buf. Ois. 2. AZX.pl. 15. — Buff. PI. Enl. 150.— 

 Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. p. 36l. — Temm. Man. d'Orni.jJ. 300. 



Guernsey Partridge. Albin. Birds. I. pi. 29. — Will. Aug, 167. 

 pl. 29. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 7O8. — Lath. Syn. Sup. 1. 220. — 

 Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. — Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup. — Letvin. Brit. 

 Birds. 3. pi. 137.—Pult. Cat. Dors. p. 7. 



Var. j6. corpore tofo albido. 



With the whole body whitish. 



Perdix rubra, (a.) Temm. Gall. Ind. p. 726. 



La Perdrix rouge blanche. Briss. Orn. 1. p. 238. — Temm, Pig. 

 et Gall, 3. p. 366. 



Rather smaller than the Greek Partridge: 

 length thh'teen inches : the forehead is grey- 

 brown : the hind head rufous-brown : the chin 

 and throat white, surrounded with black, as in 

 the preceding : eyebrows white : the feathers of 

 the hind head with two oblique black spots on 

 each : hind part of the neck rufous-brown : the 

 back, the wings, and the rump, grey-brown : quills 

 the same, v/ith their exterior margins yellowish: 

 the fore-part and sides of the neck grey, each fea- 

 ther with tw^o black spots : the breast pale ash : the 

 belly, the sides, the thighs, and the vent, rufous j 

 the sides marked with lunulated stripes of white, 

 black, and orange : the tail composed of sixteen 

 feathers 5 the four middle of which are cinereous- 



