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Allen’s naturalist’s library. 
of ‘the *ma‘e1n'’?hf " •'I'id, give, a description 
Ot the plumage in the male and female of the Common Par- 
Fig. 
Fig. 2. 
Fig. I 
— Median 
wing-covert of male Partridge. Figs, 2 & 2.— Median 
wing-covert.s of female Partridge. 
tndge we find that the_ chief difference mentioned as distin- 
guishing the two sexes IS, thtit the male has a large chestnut 
1” *''‘ 0 °" ‘“breast, while inShrS. 
this marking is reduced to a few chestnut spots, or is some- 
times entirely absent. This character, as we first pointed out 
