218 PARTRIDGE. 
lines of brownish yellow and grey, with bars of. brownish 
red, the latter colour widening on the lower part, the shafts 
yellowish. 
The wings, expanding to the width of one foot eight inches, 
are short and much rounded, and have the fourth feather the 
longest, the third nearly as long, the fifth also about the 
same, the first nearly equal to the sixth and seventh; greater 
wing coverts, dark greyish brown, widely banded with greyish 
yellow; primaries, dark greyish brown, widely banded with 
greyish yellow; secondaries, fifteen, the first very short. The 
tail, of sixteen brownish red feathers, is very short, and much 
hidden by the coverts; the tips of all the feathers are reddish 
white, the two middle ones and the edges of the next pair 
marked with dots of brownish black, lines of brownish yellow 
and grey, with bars of brownish red; upper tail coverts, 
some of which are long, freckled with two shades of brown, 
and barred with chesnut; under tail coverts, pale yellowish 
grey or whitish. Legs, short, and rather strong, above the 
knee greyish white; toes, pale greyish blue, tinged with 
yellow; claws, dusky brown, short, strong, and blunted with 
use. | 
Female; length, one foot; the part about the bill paler; 
the crown marked with small oblong yellowish white streaks; 
the neck on its lower part is more mixed with brown; the 
patch on the breast is not so large, though sometimes nearly 
so, and in some is only composed of a few spots ona greyish 
white space; on its lower part it is white, and the chesnut marks 
on the sides are broader; the back has the band longer, 
and the yellowish white streaks broader; the wings are one 
foot seven inches in expanse. 
In the young at first the bill is greyish brown, the tip of 
the upper mandible yellowish; there is no red mark behind 
the eye. Crown, chesnut brown, patched with brownish black ; 
forehead, neck, and nape, greyish yellow, marked with black; 
chin and throat, pale yellowish chesnut; the breast, after the 
firss moult, has the horse-shoe small, and in the females 
generally wanting; back, greyish yellow, marked with black 
spots, afterwards greyish brown, barred with brownish black; 
on its lower part clouded with brown. Wings brown, with 
black spots, afterwards patched with brownish red; the tail, 
after the first moult, has the four middle feathers barred; 
lees and toes, yellowish grey brown. 
The Partridge is very subject to variety. In the ‘Cambrian’ 
