4. CACCABIS. 119 



p. 41 [Corsica] ; Olphe-GalUard, Faun. Orn. Europe Occ. fasc. xxxix. 



p. 4 (1886) ; Salvad. El. Ucc. Ital. p. 199 (1887) ; Backhouse, Ibis, 



1887, p. 73 [E. Pyrenees] ; Tait, Ihis, 1887, p. 380 [Portugal] ; 



Reid, Ibis, 1888, p.* 76 [Gran Canary] ; Tristram, Ihis. 1889, p. 27 



[Gran Canary] : Saunders, III. Man. Brit. B. p. 489 (1889) ; Evans, 



Ibis, 1891, p' 76 ; Saunders, Ibis, 1891, p. 186; Waldo, Ibis, 1893, 



p. 201 [Gran Canary]. 

 Perdix rufidorsalis, BreJim, Voyelfmu), p. 266 (185o). 

 Perdix rubra intercedeus, Brehm, Ally, deutsch. nat. Zeit. p. 472 



(1857). 

 Perdix rufus, Fontaine, Faime Luxemb., Ois. p. 175 (1865). 

 Cothurnix rubra, Lemett, Cat. Ois. Seine-Inf. p. 116 (1871). 

 Perdix atrorufa, Vincelot, Essais etym. Maine-et-Loire, ii. p. 30 



(1872) ; Olphe-Galliard, Faun. Orn. Eurojje Occ. fasc. xxxix, p. 12 



(1886). 

 Perdix xanthopleura, Vincelot, Essais etym. Maine-et-Loire, ii. p. 32 



(1872) ; Olphe-Galliard, Faun. Orn. Europe Occ. fasc. xxxix. p. 12 



(1886). 

 Caccabis rubra, Irhy, Orn. Gibraltar, p. 137 (1875) ; Wharton, Ibis, 



1876, p. 26 [Corsica]. 

 Caccabis rufa, var. australis, T/iAYr. Ibis, 1889, p. 28 [Gran Canary]. 



Adult male and female. Differ chiefly from C. sa.vatilis in the 

 following particulars : — The white superciliary stripes commence 

 behind the nostril, and are more or less distinctly joined across the 

 forehead. In addition to the black line yvhich circumscribes the 

 throat, the feathers of the chest and the sides and back of the neck 

 arc margined on either side with black, the former very widely, the 

 latter more narrowly. The flank-feathers have the basal part pale 

 grey, followed first by a narrow white, and then a narrow black 

 band, and terminated by a wider one of dark chestnut. The outer 

 tail-feathers are dark chestnut almost to the base. The whole 

 colouring is also somewhat warmer. The male bird is provided 

 with one or sometimes two pairs of blunt wart-like spurs, which 

 arc apparently not developed in the female. Naked skin round the 

 eye red. Bill, legs, and feet bright coral-red. 



Male. Total length 13-6 inches, wing 6-2, tail 3-7, tarsus 1'7. 



Female. Total length 13 inches, wing 6, tail 3-6, tarsus 1'6. 



In youni/er birds the black band surrounding the throat is 

 absent, there is a patch of black-edged feathers on the chest, the 

 outer ])rimaries have the subtcrminal buff part of the outer web 

 toothed witli blackish brown, and the outer secondaries arc sandy 

 brown with irregular buff black-edged bars. Some of the wing- 

 coverts, too. are sandy brown, blotched on inner web with blackish, 

 and with pale buff patches or stripes down the shaft. 



Hah. 8.W. Euro])e : ranging in the north to Belgium and 

 Switzerland, in the south to ^fadeira, the Azores, and Gran Canary 

 Island, and in the west to South and Central Italy ; also to Elba, 

 Corsica, and the Balearic Islands. Great Britain [introduced]. It is 

 not known to occur in N.W. Africa. 



a. $ ad. sk. England, Oct. Hume Coll. 



b-e. c5' 2 ad. et Lincolnshire, Sept., Oct. J. II. Caton Haigh. 



imuj. sk. Esq. TP.]. 



