Cichlids ia,  @ 
_. In the ifland of Cyprus they are fometimes bar- 
baroully employed to fight againft one another, 
as the common Cocks are fometimes by the cruel | 
and thoughtlefs part of mankind amongtt us. 
"The ae, Partridges legs ate, Hay and 
furnifhed with fpurs, (the legs of the female has 
no fpurs.) 7 
It has a naked red {pot behind and eee 
each eye. 
The breaftis brown, on the male’s is a broad 
mark of a deep orange- -colour, i in / the form of a 
horfe-fhoe. : | 
The tail feathers are Ps 2, ruft-colour, eighteen 
in number, and the fix outmott on. each fide are 
tipped with white. 
It lives in, the temperate. parts. 7 meas and 
of Ruffia, but is not found in Norway or Lap- 
_ land, or perhaps fo far to the fouth-eaft as Turkey 
in Europe. It frequents fields, and in the winter 
makes burrows under the fhow, with breathing 
holes at each end. Itis found too in Alia, even 
beyond the Lake Baikal. 
The common Partridges feed on green corn, 
“various plants, and almoft all kinds of grain, but 
the eggs of ants is their favourite food. They 
pair early in the ipting, 1 in March or April, and 
_are 
