MOUNTAIN PARTRIDGE. 
Grey nor the Red sorts. It would be difficult 
to decide, to which of these kinds we ought to 
refer it : for if, on the one hand, it be certain 
that they sometimes breed with the Grey Par- 
tridges ; on the other, their ordinary residence 
is on mountains. The red colour of their bill 
and legs also shews a close relation to the 
Grey Partridge; and I am strongly inclined 
to suspecl, that they sometimes even consort 
with these, i am therefore persuaded," con- 
cludes BufFon, " that it constitutes the inter- 
mediate species between these extremes. It is 
nearly the size of the Grey Partridge, and has 
twenty quills in the tail," 
We are rather surprised, that BufFon has 
not at all noticed the affinity which this bird 
evidently bears to the Dove or Pis;eoii. 
