bars of wood-brown ; the rurap and upper tail-coverts, some
of which are long, freckled with two shades of brown, and
barred transversely with chestnut; tail-feathers uniform reddish
chestnut. The .neck and upper part of the breast, the
sides, and flanks, light bluish grey, minutely freckled with
dark grey; lower breast with a rich chestnut-coloured'horseshoe
shaped patch on a; ground of white; sides and flanks
barred with chestnut; thighs greyish white ; under 'tail-
coverts yellowish brown ; the legs and toes bluish white;. the
claws brown.
The whole length of the male bird twelve inches and a
half. The wing in form rounded. The length from th§.
carpal joint to the. end six inches ; the! first- feather about as
long as the sixth ; .the second, equal To_ the .fifth ; and .all of
them shorter than the third and fourth, which are the longest
in The wing.
The female is generally a little smaller than the male ; the
light chestnut^coloured patch round the beak is lighter in
colour, and smaller in size, than in the male; not extending
farther back over the sides of the neck Than a line falling.'per-
pendicularly from the eye ; the. grey feathers of the lower part
of the sides of the neck are more mixed with br<pu.; the
lower breast is white, noV assuming the dark chestnut’patch
till the second or third year ; the chestnut bars on the flanks
are broader.
Young birds before their first autumn moult have no red
mark behind the ey e; the general plumage is of a uniform
brownish yellow, barred and streaked with darker brown ; the
legs and toes yellowish clay brown. During the two first
months of our shooting-season, the young Partridges may be
found in every stage of moult.
Varieties of the Partridge in colour are very common,
some exhibiting only patches of white; others -are wholly
white; and cream-coloured, or very pale buff-coloured varieties
are also common.
RASOBES. t e t r a o n id æ .
T H E RED-LEGGED PA R TR ID G E .
Tetrao rufus,
Per dix i'ufa,
Red-legged Partridge, P enn. Brit. Zoohvol-.'i. p . -365.
Guernsey ,,
Redrlegged ,,
Guernsey ,,
Red-legged, ' ,,
Perdrix rouge,
Mont. Qrnith. Diet;
B ewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 35§.
Flem. Brit. Anrp. 45. •
Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 172.
G&uld, Birds of [Europe, pt. xvii.
T emm. Man. d’Qrnith. vol. ii. p. 485.
It is stated in Daniel’s Rural Sports, that To long-ago
as the time of Charles the Second, several pairs of Red-
legged Partridges were turned out about Windsor to obtain
a stock ; but they are supposed tô have perished, although
some of them, or their descendants, 'were seen for a few years
afterwards ; and I find other record of this bird having been