. British game birds and wildfowl . heeks, and throat, pale brownish orange. Back, wingcoverts, rump, and upper tail coverts, wood brown, spotted and marked transversely withtwo shades of chesnut brown. Neck and upper breast, bluish gray, with dark grayzigzag lines closely arranged. Flanks, the same colour, banded with pale chesnut the lower breast is a large horse-shoe-shaped patch of fine chesnut, margined withyellowish white. The wing coverts and scapulars have the shafts of the feathers of apale wood-brown, edged with black. Quills, grayish black, with numerous pale browntransvers
. British game birds and wildfowl . heeks, and throat, pale brownish orange. Back, wingcoverts, rump, and upper tail coverts, wood brown, spotted and marked transversely withtwo shades of chesnut brown. Neck and upper breast, bluish gray, with dark grayzigzag lines closely arranged. Flanks, the same colour, banded with pale chesnut the lower breast is a large horse-shoe-shaped patch of fine chesnut, margined withyellowish white. The wing coverts and scapulars have the shafts of the feathers of apale wood-brown, edged with black. Quills, grayish black, with numerous pale browntransverse bars. Tail feathers, brownish red. Legs and toes, bluish gray; claws,brown. The adult female has less of the brownish orange on the forehead, eyebrows, cheeks,and throat. The gray brown feathers of the top of the head are edged with white. Thehorse-shoe mark on the lower breast is either wanting, or else pale in colour, and notso well marked as in the male. The male is twelve inches and a half in length; the female twelve — n 75 BED-LEGGED PAETEIDGE. GUERNSEY PARTRIDGE. FRENCH PARTRIDGE. Perdix rubra, . . Jenyns. Perdix rufa, .... Latham. Tetrao rvfus, . . Bewick. Perdrix rouge, .... Tehminck. Perdix—A Partridge. Rubra—Bed. The introduction of this bird into England took place in the reign of Charles theSecond, who had some pairs turned out in the neighbourhood of Windsor, in the hopethat they would become naturalized; this, however, does not appear to have been thecase, as they disappeared in the course of a few years. Since that period variousnoblemen and others have introduced them into their preserves, with more or less success;but it seems to be very questionable whether it is any advantage to encourage them toincrease, for wherever they have done so the Common Partridge is found to diminishbefore this more powerful bird; as a game bird, too, it is much inferior to its congener,both on the table and in the field, as will be seen on reference to its habits
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