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BAllBARY PARTRIDGE* 

 (Perdix petrosa.) 



Pe. corpore supra fuscescente cinereo, suhtus dilute JuscOt vertice 

 torqueque castanets ; hac maculis albis variisf superciliis cine^ 

 reisy hypochondriis vittd Jiigrd duplici notatis, tectricibus 

 alarum maculis ccerideisy rectricibus sedecem, extimis hasi 

 cinereis, apice aurantiis. 



Partridge with the body above brown-grey, beneath pale fus- 

 cous ; the crown and collar chesnut, the latter varied with 

 white spots the eyebrows grey j the hypochondria marked 

 with a double black vitta 3 the wing-coverts with blue spots 3 

 the tail-feathers sixteen, the outer ones grey at their base, 

 with orange tips. 



Perdix petrosa. Temm. Gall. Ind, p. 727. — Lath, Ind. Orn, 2. 

 648.14.? 



Perdrix rufa. y. Lath. Lid. 0rn.-2. 647- 12. 



Perdix rubra Barbarica. Briss.Orn. 1. 239- 11. 



Tetrao petrosus. Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 1. 753. 35.? 



Le Perdrix rouge de Barbarie. Biif. Ois. 2. 445. 



Le Perdrix de la roche, ou le Gambra. Buff. Ois, 2. 446. 



Perdrix Gambra. Temm. Pier, et Gall. 3. 368. — Temm. Man. 



d'Orni. p. 308. 

 Rufous-breasted Partridge. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 771- 14. 

 Barbary Partridge. Edw.pl. 70. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 770. 



Less than the Greek Partridge : length about 

 thirteen inches : irides hazel : beak, eyelids, and 

 round the eyes, scarlet : top of the head bright 

 chesnut, passing down to the back : eyebrows 

 grey-ash : space between the beak and eye, and 

 sides of the head and throat, the same : behind 

 the ears a dusky brown spot ; from this depends a 



