224 BARBARY PARTRIDGE. 
without the assistance of its wings, and was able to spring 
from the floor to the top of a table with little seeming effort. 
Male; length, one foot one inch; bill, red, as is a bare 
space over the eye; iris, hazel; head on the sides, bluish 
ash-colour, with a narrow black edge above; crown, neck on 
the back, and nape, rich chesnut brown, coming round in 
front to the bottom of the neck, handsomely variegated with 
small triangular-shaped white spots. Chin and throat, bluish 
ash-colour above and below the collar; breast, brownish grey, 
with a tinge of reddish buff, barred on the sides with white, 
black, and bright chesnut; on the lower part yellowish brown, 
and then reddish buff. Back, greyish brown. 
Greater and lesser wing coverts, a mixture of brown and 
grey, broadly edged with chesnut. Primaries, brownish black 
on the inner webs, the outer web of the fourth greyish brown, 
of the others light brown on their inner half, pencilled with 
dusky transverse markings; tertiaries, a mixture of brown and 
grey. The tail, rich chesnut brown, has the middle feathers 
pencilled with dusky transverse markings; under tail coverts, 
brownish grey, with a tinge of reddish buff. The legs,—whick 
have blunt spurs—toes, and claws, red. 
‘ne female is smaller, the colour not so bright, and she is 
without the spurs. 
