PIN-TAILED
GR.
D e s c r i p t io n .
further precifion, nor to form an idea what they are, unlefs Ptarmigans.
Tetrao alchata, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 276. n .'—HaJJelq. Voy. p. 281.
La Gelinote des Pyrenees, Brif. orn. i. p. 195. pi. 19. f. 1. 2.
. Le Ganga, Buf. oif. ii. p. 244. pi. 8.—PI. enl. 105. (male.) 106. (female.)
Partridge of Damalcus, Will. orn. p. 178. pi. z^.'—Raii Syn. p, 55, 7 i
Kitiwiah, or African Lagopus, Shaw's Trav. pi. in p. 253.
Kata, Rujf. Alep. p. 64. pi. 9.
Little Pintailed Grous, Edw. pi. 249.
g I Z E of the Partridge : length thirteen inches and a half.
Bill brown: round the eye black, palling in a ftreak behind:
the head, upper parts of the neck, and back, variegated with a
mixture of olive, yellowilh, tawny, and black : fides of the
head, and part of the neck before, yellowilh alh-colour: chin
and throat black : lower part of the neck and bread: orange,
bounded above and below with a black line: from the bread: to
the vent white : wing coverts ftriped with orange and coffee-
colour, mixed with white: the quills cinereous : tail brown,
crofted with black lines; the two middle feathers much longer
than the red:, and pointed at the ends ; the part which exceeds,
the other feathers is black; the reft of the tail is rounded in
jhape, and the feathers white at the ends: the legs are cinereous,
and covered with Ihort, downy, white feathers on the fore part:
the toes are pectinated on the fides, and the hind toe very Ihort *.
* Infomuch as to deceive Sbaw, who lays.it has no hack toe. Rujfell calls
this hind toe only a fpur.
The
The female is paler on the upper parts, and more variegated r Female.
wants the black on the throat, and the two middle tail feathers
not fo long in proportion; it has alfo on the throat two tranf-
verfe lines of black, bounding the upper part of the orange-
colour.
This bird inhabits moil of the warmer parts of Europe, as Place and
the fouth of France, Spain, and Italy ; in Africa, as Barbary and ankers.
Senegal; .alfo frequent in Afta, and is a very beautiful fpe-
cies, efpecially the male. A few of theie are found in all times
at Aleppo-, but they come in plenty from the delerts o f Arabia
and Syria, in May and June, in which feafon fo great numbers
have been caught at one draw of the net, that an afs has been
loaded with them * ; but they are food only for the natives, for
their fleih is fo hard and dry that the Europeans never eat
them.
Tetrao Senegailus, Lin, Mantijf. 1771.. p. 526. , ,
La Gellnotte de Senegal, PI. enl. 130. V a r . A.
T HIS is fmaller than the former, being fcarce twelve inches- D escri itiqk.
in length. The bill is dufky : general colour of the plumage
pale tawny red : over the eye a blueilh ftreak r chin and'
throat yellow : fore part of the neck and breaft mottled with
pale blue : the wing coverts marked with dufky ipots; and the
fecondaries, and ends of the larger quills, dufky : the two middle-
tail feathers longer than the others, as in the Pin-tailed'-, the reft
ihorten by degrees, and much the fame in colour as in that
* Hift. of Aleppo.—In plenty about the pyramids and other deferted places-
The Arabian, name is Kata.— Hajfclq.
bird £