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Title: A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge

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the back, and nape, rich chesnut brown, coming round infront to the bottom of the neck, handsomely variegated withsmall triangular-shaped white spots. Chin and throat, bluishash-colour above and below the collar; breast, brownish grey,with a tinge of reddish buff, barred on the sides with white,black, and bright chesnut; on the lower part yellowish brown,and then reddish buff. Back, greyish brown. G-reater and lesser wing coverts, a mixture of brown andgrey, broadly edged with chesnut. Primaries, brownish blackon the inner webs, the outer web of the fourth greyish brown,of the others light brown on their inner half, pencilled withdusky transverse markings; tertiaries, a mixture of brown andgrey. The tail, rich chesnut brown, has the middle featherspencilled with dusky transverse markings; under tail coverts,brownish grey, with a tinge of reddish buff. The legs,—whichhave blunt spurs—toes, and claws, red. The female is smaller, the colour not so bright, and she iswithout the spuis.
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225 VIRGINIAN PARTRIDGE. Perdix Virginianay Latham. Jentxs, Ferdix—A Partridge. Virginiana—Of Virginia. The species before us has been introduced into this countryfrom America, where it is indigenous in both continents. Mon-tagu mentions that several had been turned out in differentparts of the British Empire, and he speaks of one shot nearMansfield, in Nottinghamshire. In Norfolk, some were turnedout by Mr. Coke, (Lord Leicester,) near Holkham, and someof their descendants are believed still to exist; a nest withseveral eggs was found at Barton, in that county. Severalhave been killed in the county of Surrey; others were intro-duced at Teddesly, in Staffordshire, by Edward John Littleton,Esq., of that estate; one was shot at Eotherfield, near Tun-briclge Wells, Kent, a female, about the first of Januai y,1850; another, a male about the same time and place; andone near Chelsham Court, Godstone, Surrey, in the middleof October, 18-15: it was supposed to be one of a numberprocured f

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