MOUNTAIN PARTRIDGE. 
who permitted me to make a drawing from it. 
Though it has already been well described 
by my w r orthy patron, Sir Hans Sloane, Bart, 
in his History of Jamaica, as it has never ap- 
peared in it's native colours, I have ventured 
here to publish it ; and, to compleat my de- 
scription, shall borrow the following account 
from Sir Hans Sloane — " The stomach was 
44 pretty large ; and filled" with a sort of Bay 
" Berries, called Sweet- Wood Berries. It 
" was not very muscular; neither was there 
i 1 any thing extraordinary in the entrails of 
" this bird. They are found in the woody 
li mountains near the Angels, where they feed 
" on berries. They are accounted very good 
c ' food. They build their nests in low- 
u boughed trees ; and make them with sticks 
il laid across one another, on which is placed 
" hair and cotton. They are made so little, 
" that the young, when feathered, fall out of 
" them on the ground, and are there fed by 
" them." 
To this, which is the whole of Edwards's 
description, we shall add that of Bufto-n. 
" I make/' says he, " this Partridge a dis- 
tinct species ; since it resembles neither the 
Grey 
