ftarted, fly, with a loud noife (a ftrong charafter of our Partridge).
The natives call them Mams. One in the Britijh Mujeum not
ill correiponds with the above defcription, except that the chin
.is buff-colour, and the feathers of the head rather elongated.
Perhaps a male bird.
Sr. Mu/.
C I Z E between the Partridge and Quail: length eleven inches
and a half: general colour of the plumage a beautiful deep
green, inclining to dufky about the head: the bill pale red, a
little bent at the end: between the bill and eye bare, and reddifh :
beneath and.behind the eye the fame : the tail, thighs, and vent,
dufky: the wings are of a fine reddifh tawny brown, a little
mottled with black; the quills palefl: legs pale red : hind toe
without.a claw. %
This I met with in the Britijh Mujeum, but without any hiftory
annexed.
Tetrao Virginianus, Lin. Syji. i. p. 277. 16.
La Perdrix d* Amérique, Brif. orn. i. p. 230.
American Partridge, Catefb. Car. iii. pi. 12.
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GREEN P.
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VIRGINIA P.
gM A L L E R than the Common Partridge. Bill black: irides D escription.
red : fides of the head and throat yellowifh white : on each
fide of the head three blackifh bands; one above, a fecond under
the eye, and a third beginning beneath the throat, and tending
toward the back part of the head, forming a kind of collar : the
"top of the head, neck, backhand rump, rufous brown, variegated
Y ol. II. 5 G with