49 ° TZtf Hiftory of ANIMALS. 
This is frequent in the cornfields of many parts of Europe, but not in England • 
we have it from France made into pies, and edeem it greatly. All the writers on 
birds have mentioned it, and they have all called it Perdix rufa, perdix major, or per- 
dix rufa major. The female in this fpecies differs from the male in her colouring 5 the 
back is paler* and the bread browner. 
!Tetrao macula nuda coccinea pone oculos. 
'The Tetrao , with a naked fcarlet mark behind the eyes. 
%l)t common 
damage* 
This is fomewhat fmaller than the red-legged partridge of France lad defcribed, 
but in other refpedts greatly like it: the head is fmali and rounded j the eyes are large 
and bright, and their iris is yellow: the beak is diort, robud, a little hooked, and 
fomewhat gibbous on the back; there are fome naked, red excrefcences about the 
eyes: the bread in the male has a reddifh-mark, of the fhape of a horfefhoe on it : 
the fides of the head and under the beak are yellowifh, and thence they become of a 
biuifh-grey, fpotted and dreaked with black down to the fpot on the bread 3 under that 
the colour becomes paler, and has fome admixture of yellow with the grey. 
The back, fhoulders, fides, and wings are all variegated with brown, grey, and 
black, very regularly and elegantly difpofed, only thofe long feathers which hang from 
the fhoulders, and the larger ones which cover the wings, have a yellowifh-white 
about their middle: the wings are not long or large; the principal feathers of each are 
twenty-three, and thefe are brown and variegated with a yellowifh colour: the tail 
is fhort, and confids of twelve feathers; the four middle ones of the colour of the 
•body, the red of a dufky yellowidi, with grey tips. 
The legs are robud, but not long ; they are of a greenifh colour in the young 
' birds, afterwards white ; there is no mark of a fpur in the males. 
This is frequent in our fields, and all the writers on birds have defcribed it. They 
all call it Perdix vulgaris, and Perdix cinerea, or Perdix cinerea minor. 
Tetrao linea fuperciliorum alba. 
The Tetrao , with the line of the eye-brows white. 
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This is the fmalled bird of this genus; it does not exceed the fieldfare in fize, but 
it is, in all refpedts, like the red of it’s brethren: the head is fmali, but the eyes are 
large, and their iris is hazel: the beak is fhort, but robud j it is not gibbous, but 
rather depreffed on the upper part, but is is very fharp; the lower chap is blackifb, 
the upper of a whitidi-brown. 
The bread and belly are of a pale and foul yellowifh colour; the throat is of the 
fame tinge, but with fome admixture, of reddidi, and immediately under the bafe of 
the lower chap there begins a black, oblong fpot, which runs a coniiderable way down: 
the head is blackifh, but the edges of the feathers are variegated with grey and brown, 
and there runs an elegant white line on each fide, above the eyes: the back is varie¬ 
gated with brown, black, grey, and a yellowidi colour. 
The wings are not large; their principal feathers are brown : the tail is very fhort, 
and confids of twelve feathers; it is black, but fafciated with tranfverfe lines of a 
yellowifh-brown. 
The legs are fhort, moderately robud, and of a pale colour; the fkin which co¬ 
vers them is fquammofe, rather than annulated. 
This fpecies is frequent with us, and is edeemed at our tables. The authors who 
have written on birds have all defcribed it, and all under the fame name Coturnix, 
or Coturnix Latinorum. 
BIRDS. 
