MOUNTAIN PARTRIDGE. 
Edwards observes, that " this bird is 
properly a Pigeon or Dove, though it has 
gained the name of the Mountain Partridge in 
Jamaica." Linnaeus, also, seems to have 
adopted this idea ; for, in his List of Ed- 
wards's Birds, he denominates it Columbus 
Montana. It is,- however, the Tetrao Mon- 
tan.us, of Gmeiin • the Perdix Montana, of 
Brisson ; and the Mountain Partridge, of Buf~ 
ion, and of Edwards. 
The figure annexed, which we have copied 
from Edwards, was drawn by that celebrated 
ornithologist, from the living bird in London. 
" The bill," says he, " is shaped like those 
in other Doves : it is blackish, from the point, 
half it's length; the remainder, toward the 
head, with the knob over the nostrils, is of a 
fine red. The eyes have their irides of a fine 
bright yellow: and are encompassed with a 
skin, bare of feathers, of a fine scarlet colour, 
which skin reaches from the eyes, on each 
side, to the corners of the bilk The feathers 
joining 
