BBS mm
1 1 1ill'Pnl
F emale.
Placic
!t)ill is dullty ; irides hazel: over the eyes naked and red: the
upper parts of the head, hind part of the neck, back, and wing
coverts, are variegated with blackilh and yellowifh ruft-colour;
but the lower part of the back and rump are crofted with alternate
lines of black and yellowilh white : the fides of the head,
Chin, throat and neck, breaft and belly, are black : on each jaw a
ftreak of white; and behind the eye a large patch of the fame,
which pafles forwards in a ftreak to the noftrils : round the neck
is a collar of a rufty orange: the fides of the breaft and body
marked with white fpots : the lower part o f the belly, and feathers
over the thighs, crofted with black lines : the under tail coverts
reddilh : quills dulky, marked with tranfverfe rufty yellow
jpots : tail,rounded ; the four middle feathers feriped black and
rufty yellow ; the others, on each fide, with black and white for
two thirds of the length, the reft black to the end : legs bare,of
feathers, reddilh, and furnilhed with a fpur.
The female is dels, and irregularly mixed with blackilh and
rufty yellow throughout ; but in the hack and tail much teijem-
hles the male.
This elegant bird inhabits -only the warmer parts of Europe,
■ viz. Spain, Italy, the Lip art IJlands, thofe of Sicily and Malta, and
feveral other Ulands of the Mediterranean. It is likewife met
with in Bariary, Egypt *, Aleppo f , and feveral other parts of
Afia, as far as Bengal J.
The manners of this bird are mot well known, except that it
* Hajfelquijl.—“Poeock.
f -About a day’sjourney from .Aleppox — IttjffeL -AL p.
^ Edwards.
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feeds
III
feeds on grain, and may be kept in aviaries, where they produce
their young freely.
They have a loud cry, a fort of whiffle, which may be heard a
great way off. Their fi'elh is much efteemed.
J.e Francolin de L’llle de France, Son.Voy.Ind. vol. ii. p. 166. pi. 97.
§ I Z E of the Red Partridge. Bill black : top of the head pale
rufous yellow; in the middle black, with rufous edges: on
each fide of the head are two bands, the one palling through the
eyes, the other beneath them; the fpace between white, as in the
throat -, the hind part of the neck is alfo white, with a black mark
at the end of each feather: lower part of the neck and breaft
black, with fix white fpots on each feather : belly the fame, but
the fpots larger, and rufous : thighs pale rufous, crofted with
black bands : the back is reddilh, but the fcapulars are blackilh
in the middle, and irregularly fpotted with rufous white : lefier
quills the fame, but darker : the greater quills black, crofted
with ftripes of white : rump and middle tail feathers pale rufous,
crofted with black bands; the reft of a plain brownilh black:
legs pale rufous.
The male is furnilhed with a ftrong fpur.
Inhabits the ille of Madagafcar, and has been tranfported from
thence to the IJle of France. It perches, and has a note like the
Guinea Pintado; from thence the inhabitants call it Perdrix
Pintadee.' 1 :"i ■’ -- ■■ ‘ '"" -i| ;■■■
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PINTADO P.
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PtACI.’
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