12.
V ar. B.
BARBARY P.
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Red Partridges are often ufed as we do Cocks, for the rational
amufement of butchering each other. This paftime is now common
in the IJle of Cyprus.
La Perdrix rouge de Barbaiie, S r i/ , orn. i. p. 2jg. y __Buf. oif. ii. p. 445.
Red-legged Partridge from Barbary, EJiu. pi. yo.
Barbary Partridge, Sbaw’sTrav. p. 30a ?
I ,E S S than the Common Partridges length twelve inches
and a half. Bill fcarlet: eyes hazel: eyelids, and round
the eye, fcarlet : top of the head bright chefnut, palling down
to the back : fides of the head, and throat, light blueilh alh:
behind the ears a dulky fpot: round the neck a chefnut ring,
fpotted with white : ftioulders blue, mixed with brown: rump,
and middle tail feathers, alh-coloured ; the fide feathers half
alh, half dirty orange: the fides of the body covered with beautiful
feathers, variegated with orange and black: fore part of the
neck alh-colour: breaft rofe-colour: belly, thighs, and vent,
pale brown: the legs are red; the daws brown; and in the
male a blunt fpur as in the others.
This bird came from Santa Cruz in Barbary. Befides thefe
varieties, Brijfon * mentions one of a rufous white colour: the
crown of the. head rufous brown: and the fides banded with
rufous f .
* Vol. i. p. 328. A»
+ Salernt mentions flocks of Partridges at Berry and Sologne, which were en-
tirely white, except the top of the head ; but the white had a dirty yellowilh
tinge. His birds were eighteen inches in length, twenty-two in breadth, and
weighed thirteen ounces. See Ornitb. p. 147.
La Perdrix rouge d’Afriqut, Buf. oif. ii. p. 444.— PA ml. 180.
^ I Z E of a fmall Partridge: length thirteen inches. Bill
Ihort, red: round the eye a bare fpace, pointed before and
behind: chin and throat bare and red : the general colour of the
plumage brown, Ipotted above with darker brown : over the eye
a white ftreak; beneath another, which bounds the upper part
o f the bare fpace on the throat, curving downwards; both
ftreaks arifing from the bafe of the bill: fides of the neck, and
under parts of the body, white, dalhed with brown ; the brown
marks largeft as they are furtheft from the upper parts: the middle
o f the breaft and belly brown for the moft part: vent and thighs
white: tail Ihort, fcarcely more than an inch long, and fpread :
legs red, fumilhed with a curved fpur as long as the hind
claw.
Inhabits Africa. Manners unknown.
La Perdrix de Roche, ou de la Gambia, Buf. oif. ii. p. 446,
H I S is rather fmaller than the Guernfey Partridge; is lhaped
like it, and has alio a red bill, eyes, and legs: the general
colour is dull brown: on the breaft is a ipot the colour of
Spanifh fnuff.
Thefe bend the tail greatly downwards in funning, which they
do very faft. Are reckoned excellent eating. Frequent rocky
and mountainous fituations.
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RED-NECKED
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14.
RUFOUSBREASTED
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