4. CACCAIUS. Ill 



Sides and flanks barred, in marked contrast to the rest of the 

 underparts. 



Ranije. Palaearctic region : from the Canaries to Cliina, and from 

 Mongolia to S. Arabia. 



Keij to the Sj^ecies. 



I. Outer tail-feathers dark chestnut. 



A, Top of the head not dark chestnut ; outer 



scapulars margined with vinaceous or 

 dirty prrey. 



a. A black band surrounds the throat. 



a' . Feathers of the chest uniform (isabel- 

 line grey), not margrined on the sides 

 with black ; belly ])ale rufous buff. 

 a". Lores black; ear-coverts black mixed 



with buff sa.vatilis c? & J ,p. 11 1. 



b" . Lores white ; ear-coverts chestnut . cAwAiar cf «& $ , p. 113. 

 b' . Feathers of the chest widely margined 

 on the sides with black ; belly bright 

 rufous buff }-vfa c? & ? , p. 118. 



b. Band round the throat double, on the in- 



side black, on the outside reddish brown, iitagna (?&?)?■ 120. 



B. Top of the head dark chestnut ; a chestnut 



collar surrounds the neck, spotted, espe- 

 cially on the sides, with white ; outer sca- 



])ulars with rufous-chestnut borders .... petrosa S^2 tV- ^^0. 

 II. Outer tail-feathers grey; top of the head 



black ; a wide black band surrounds the 



throat, and is continued down the middle of [p. 122. 



the neck melanocephala c^& 2j 



1. Caccabis saxatilis. 



La Bartavelle, D'Aiibcnt. PL Enl. ii. pi. 39. no. 231 ; Buff. Hist. 

 Nat. Ois. ii. p. 420 (1771) jiart.]. 



Greek Partridgf, Lath. Gen. Syii. ii. pt. ii. p. 763 (1783). 



Perdix rufa, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 647 (1700) ; VieilL X. Did. d'llist. 

 Nat. XXV. p. 194 (1817); id. Tabl. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 206, pi. 92. 

 fig. 4 (1823). 



Perdix saxatilis, Wolf S,- Afn/cr, Hist. Nat. Oi.^. FAllem. p. 87, 

 pi. 48 (180o) ; Mci/er ^- Wolf, Tasch. iJeitt.i. i. p. .30."), pi. (I8I0) ; 

 Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 340, 72o (1815) : id. Man. tfOrt). ii. 

 p. 484 ( 1820) ; Vieill. Faun. Fran<;. p. 252, pi. 109. tig. 5 ( 1828) ; 

 lioux, Orn. Prov. ii. p. 41, pi. 259 (1830); Brehm, Handb. Vog. 

 Deutschl. p. 523 (18-31) ; Men{ti: Cat. i?rtw. p. 47 (1832) ; Schinz, 

 Nat. Abbild. Vog. p. 270 (1833) ; Natim. Nat. 7 w/. Deutschl. vi. 

 p. 540, pi. 164 (1833) ; Schinz, Faun. Ile/rit. p. 99 (1837) ; Gould, 

 B. Europe, iv. text to pi. 261. fig. 2 (1837) ; Cre.<pon, Orn. Gard, 

 p^ 330 (1840) ; Schinz. Furop. Faun. i. p. 288 (1840) ; Bout. Orn. 

 Dauphinc, p. 63, pi. 42. fig. 2 (1843); Malherbe, Faun. Orn. Sicil. 

 p. 152 (1843); Schinz, Nat. Vcigel, p. 163, pi. 79 (1853); Bonap. 

 J. f. 0. 1858, p. 30 ; Compango, Ili-'f. Nat. Pgrcn. iii. p. 202 (1863) ; 

 Jaubert Sf Lapomm. Bich. Orn. p. 417 (1859) ; Bettoni, Ucc. Lom- 

 bard, ii. pi. 94 [text] (1868); id. Ucc. Lombard, ii. fasc. .\xxiv. 

 t. 95 (1870) ; Danf. ^ Broum, Ibis, 1875, p. 417 [Transylvania] ; 



