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6 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
The Greek Partridge’s legs are red, naked, 
and without {purs, and the beak too is red; ‘the 
throat is white, wits a black bar sre with 
white. 
The Greek or Red Partridge is found in fome - 
of the mountainous and temperate parts of Eu- 
rope, Afia, and Africa, but riot in England, or 
in many parts of Germany}; at leaft they are not 
common in England : fome few have been killed, 
but they Were probably fuch as have been tutned 
out of aviarics or menageriés in order to breed. 
A fingle pair was brought into the ifland Nan- 
fio, which is in the Archipelago, between Eu- 
rope and Afia, and they increafed fo faft, that the 
inhabitants were upon the point of abandoning 
the ifland ; and now there are fuch numbers, that 
they are ‘obliged to ‘deftroy thoufands of eggs 
about Eafter, left the young fhould confume their | 
harveft, 
Tn fummer they frequent ‘mountairis upon vitich 
there is much heath and brufhwood. “Ih wititer 
they fhelter themfelves under rocks, and are itl 
eafily roufed. | : 
Their food is grafs, grain, caterpillars, ants 
-€ges, fnails, and other infeGs. 
They fly heavily and with difficulty, and may 
be known by the noife which they make with — 
their. 
