 @ «THE NATURAL HISTORY : 
The Greek Partridge’ S less ‘are red, naked, 
and without fpurs, and the beak too is red; the 
throat 1S white, “_ a black bar fpotted with 
white. na OG 
i The Greek or Red Partridge is found i in‘fome | 
of the mountainous. and temperate parts of Eu- 
rope, Afia, and Africa, but’ not 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 turned 
“out of aviaries or menageries in order to breed. 
RK 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 iland’; and now there are fuch numbers, that 
they are bie to- deftroy thoufands of eggs — 
about Eafter, left the young thould confume their | 
harveft. : | 
Tn fummer they freejueint mountains upon which 
there’ is much heath and brufhwood. In winter 
they fhelter themfelves'under rocks, and*are not 
eatily ‘roufed. | Oh Gus Rap 
’ Their food is ; grate, grain, ceigunecweis ants’ 
ego s, fnails, and-other infects, 
They fly heavily and with difficulty, and may 
be known by the noife which they make with 
their 
