. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . nd undergoes the same changes as have been described in theGrouse and Ptarmigans. The species have a strong, whirringflight, performed by a fluttering motion of the wings, or byregularly and quickly repeated beats. They run with great 214 PERDIX. PARTRIDGE. speed, conceal themselves from danger by skulking among theherbage and shrubs, and emit
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . nd undergoes the same changes as have been described in theGrouse and Ptarmigans. The species have a strong, whirringflight, performed by a fluttering motion of the wings, or byregularly and quickly repeated beats. They run with great 214 PERDIX. PARTRIDGE. speed, conceal themselves from danger by skulking among theherbage and shrubs, and emit a harsh or creaking cry. Thenest is slight, in a hollow scraped in the soil; the eggs arenumerous, generally unspotted ; the young are at first coveredwith down, and run about immediately after exclusion, theirparents leading them with great tenderness, and feigning lame-ness to draw their enemies from them. The largest of our two species is properly speaking a native ofFrance and other countries of Europe, but has been introducedinto the south of England, in some parts of which it is not souncommon as not to merit a place here as a naturalized bird. 215 PERDIX RUBRA. THE RED PARTRIDGE. RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE. GUERNSEY PARTRIDGE. FRENCH Fig. 47. Perdix Rufa, /?. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 647. Guernsey Partridge. Mont. Orn. Diet. Perdrix Rouge. Perdix Rubra. Temm. Man. dOrn. II. 485. Perdix Rubra. Red-Legged Partridge. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 172. The hill and feet bright red; upper parts reddish brown tingedwith grey ; forehead ash-grey; throat and cheeks white; a blackband from the bill to the eye^ and thence down the neck^ becomingbroader on its fore part^ which is spotted icith the same colour ;lower parts ash-grey and light red; sides transversely bandedwith ash-grey^ ichite^ blacky and red; tarsus of the male with alarge flat tubercle. Male.—This beautiful species is somewhat larger and morerobust than the Common Partridge, which it resembles in formand proportions, the
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