PERDIX CINEREA. 
COMMON PARTRIDGE, 
Generic Character. 
Bill short, strongs. 
Nostrils covered with a bare prominent rim. 
Eyes surrounded with warty protuberances. 
Legs naked. 
Tail short. 
Synonyms, 
Perdix Cinerea. hid. Orn. 645. 
Tetrao Perdix. Lin. Si/st. 1. 276. 12. 
Common Partridge. Br. Zool. 1. 96. Lath. Si/n» 
4. p. 7 62. 8. Mont. Orn. Diet. Bewick's 
Br, Birds, Pt. 1. p. 303, 
E^G. Ovarium Brit. Pt. 1. 
TT . . . 
JL HIS species is in length thirteen inches, and weighs 
about fifteen ounces ; bill hard ; the nostrils covered over 
by a prominent edge, which projects rather beyond them, 
having an aperture in the front ; eyes partly surrounded 
by a warty skin, which is placed principally behind the eye^ 
and continues nearly half round it ; legs short, furnished 
with short blunt spurs ; the feathers on the body are double, 
two feathers proceeding from the same quill ; the inner 
one, which is much the smallest, has two webs projecting 
frpm each side of the shaft. General colours alike in both 
sexes 
