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Welcome Partridge
Perdix neoxenus [now Colinus cristatus]
Octavo edition, plate 292
“Nothing is known of this species further than that it was procured in the course of Captain BEECHEY’S voyage, on the north-west coast of America. My drawing was taken from a specimen kindly lent to me by the Council of the Zoological Society of London.â€ÂÂÂ
John James Audubon, Birds of America (New York: J.J. Audubon; Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier, 1840-1844), vol. 5, p. 71.
