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legged Partridge. These, with the Guernsey Partridge, Perdix rvfa, and another 
nearly-allied species from the Himalaya mountains, present, in Mr. Gould’s 
opinion, sufficient differences of character to justify their separation from the 
Linnsean genus Perdix —of which our common P. cinerea affords a familiar 
illustration—and the consequent institution of a new genus. In this view of the 
subject we are disposed to concur ; and would recommend the adoption of the very 
apposite term Rufipes , or Redfoot—see page 206 of our present number—as 
designative of this newly-established and beautiful household of the distinguished 
family of the Rasores. 
The first figure in the plate is the Barbary Partridge, P. petrosa , Latham, 
—P. rubra, Barbarica , Brisson, — Tetrao petrosus , Gmelin, —Perdrix Gambra, 
la P. rouge de Barbarie, Fr .—Feldhuhn aus Barbarey, G .—This bird, resembling, 
in its habits, the Guernsey Partridge, inhabits not only, as its popular designation 
indicates, the coast of Barbary’ but the European shores, and the islands, of the 
Mediterranean Sea. It is specifically distinguished from its congeners by the 
deep-chesnut stripe which, commencing at the root of the bill, passes over the 
crown of the head to the nape; and by a rufous-brown collar which , thickly 
spotted with white points , surrounds the neck. Plence, its ptoper designation 
would obviously be the Collared Redfoot, Rufipes torquata. 
Greek Partridge, P. saxatilis , Meyer, —P. Grceca , Brisson, —Perdrix Bar- 
tavelle, Fr. —Pernice maggiore, It .—das Steinfeld Pluhn, G.,—forms the elegant 
subject of the second figure. It is a much rarer bird than either of the other two 
European Redfoots; inhabits the Archipelago, Turkey, Italy, Switzerland, and 
the Tyrol; and is principally distinguished by the white colour of the cheeks and 
neck, bounded by a black band which, passing on each side, from the beak across 
the eye, meets upon the chest. Rufipes albicollis would, consequently, form its 
appropriate designation. The male Greek Partridge measures, in extreme length, 
from thirteen to fifteen inches ; the Barbary—, from twelve to thirteen. Accord¬ 
ing to the admirable description of Temminck — Manuel d’ Ornithologies V. II., 
p. 484—486—both species occasionally exhibit considerable varieties of plumage. 
The female of both may be readily recognized by inferiority of size; less vivid 
colouring of the plumage; and by the absence of the short blunt spur with which 
the tarsus of the male is invariably furnished. The Barbary, or Collared, lays 
fifteen eggs, of a dull-yellow, covered with minute specks of a greenish-yellow 
or olive colour : the Greek, or White-throated, from fifteen to twenty, yellowish- 
white, with indistinct markings of reddish-yellow. The figures in this plate are 
drawn wdth great fidelity and spirit; but the colouring of the feathers, on the 
sides and flanks, is rather hard. 
Land Rail, or Corn Crake, Gallinula crex , Rallus crex , Linnaeus, — Ortygo- 
metra crex , Fleming, — Crex pratensis , Beclistein, —Rale, ou Poule, d’Eau de 
