GINGI PARTRIDGE. 



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broad chesnut-brown collar, which on the fore-part 

 of the neck is spotted with white : the top of the 

 head is of a deep grey : lower down a rich patch 

 of rose-colour : the upper parts of the body are of 

 an olive-grey : on the scapulars are nine or ten 

 spots of deep rich blue, and the feathers are fringed 

 with orange: the sides of the body are covered 

 with beautiful feathers, variegated with orange 

 and black : the belly, the thighs, and the vent, are 

 pale brown : the four middle tail-feathers are grey, 

 and the lateral ones red : the legs are red ; in the 

 male armed with a blunt spur : the claws are 

 brown. Female less brilliant in colour, smaller, 

 and the collar of the neck narrower. It varies as 

 in the two preceding species. 



This elegant species inhabits the rocky mountains 

 of Spain, the isles of Majorca, Minorca, Sar- 

 dinia, Corsica, Malta, Sicily, and Calabria : on the 

 northern shores of the Mediterranean and in France 

 it is rare, but on the southern, and the coast of 

 Barbary, it is extremely numerous : it also occurs 

 in Teneriffe, and as far as the river Niger in 

 Senegal : it feeds upon seeds and insects, but its 

 manners are unknown. 



GINGI PARTRIDGE. 



(Perdix Gingica.) 



Pe. corpore supra griseo-ful'oa, suhtus albo, later ibus cinereis 

 maculis castaneis variegatis, vertice castaneo, superciliis albis. 



