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PARTRIDGE. 
Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 3. p. 20. t. 32. f. 2. and 3. — Grosschnabliger Kernbeiser, 
Meijer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 137.— 16. Vbg. Deut. 1. t. f. 1. old male. — 
Selby, pi. 53**. fig. 1. p. 254, 
The bill of this species, according’ to Selby, is very strong-, and five- 
eighths of an inch deep ; shorter than the middle toe, much hooked, 
and the crossing- point of the lower mandible, not reaching- so high as 
the ridg-e of the upper one ; but in the common crossbill, it comes 
beyond that part : the head larg-e in proportion, body thick, and consi- 
derably exceeding- in size that of the common species ; the whole of 
the upper and under parts of the body have an intermixture of tile red, 
sulphur and wax yellow, and g-rey ; the wings of a deep hair brown 
colour, greater coverts and quills tinged and margined with wine yellow ; 
tail the same as the wings; legs and toes yellowish brown; claws black. 
The specimen, from which this description is taken, was sent from 
Ross-shire, and appears to be a young’ male, as it answers to Temminck’s 
description of the bird of a year old. According to that author, the 
plumage of the old male is principally of an oil green colour, tinged 
with grey. The throat and sides of the neck bluish grey ; rump sul- 
phur yellow, inclining to lemon yellow ; breast and belly the same, but 
mixed with grey ; flanks with streaks of blackish grey. 
Another very mutilated specimen of this bird is in the Edinburgh 
Museum : in manners it resembles the other species of this singular 
genus. It inhabits the pine forests of the Arctic regions, where it is 
found in great numbers, retiring on the approach of winter. 
According to Temminck, it visits Poland, Prussia, and other parts of 
Germany, during the winter months, and breeds there at that season, 
returning to its native regions in the north, on the approach of summer. 
In France and Holland it only occurs accidentally: the nest is skilfully 
constructed upon the branches of a fir-tree ; the eggs are said to be four 
or five in number, of an ash-grey colour, marked at the greater end 
with large irregular spots of blood red, and over the rest of the surface 
with minute specks. The food consists of the seeds of the fir and 
alder tree.* 
PARTRIDGE {Perdix cinerea, Ray.) 
*Perdix cinerea, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 645. sp. 9 Flem. Br. Anitn. p. 44— Tetrao 
perdix, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 276. 13. — Faun. Suec. No. 205. — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 
757. sp. 13. — Perdix cinerea, Raii, Syn. p. 57. A. 2 Will. p. 118. t. 28. — 
Briss. 1. p. 219. 1. — La Perdrix Grise, Buff. Ois. 2. p. 401 Ih. pi. Enl. 27. 
female. — Temm. pig. et Gall. 3. p. 378. — lb. Man. d’Orn. 2. p. 488 La petite 
Perdrix, Buff. Ois. 2. p. 417. — Perdrix de Montagne, Ib. 2. p. 419. — Ib. pi. 
Enl. 136. a local variety Gemeines oder Graues Feldhuhn, Bechst. Naturg. 
Deut. 3. p. 1361 Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 303 Frisch, Vbg. t. 114. 
male, t. 114. B. red variety, and t. 115. white or cream-coloured varietj'. — 
Common Partridge, Br. Zool. 1. No. 96. — Arct. Zool. 2. p. 319. A. — Will. 
(Angl.) p. 166. t. 28.—Albln, 1. t. 27. — Lath. Syn. 4. p. 762. 8. — Mont. Orn. 
