192 PHASIAJJID^. 



Subsp. a. Perdix damascena. 



Perdix damascena, Briss. Orn. i. p. 22.3 (1760) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. ii,. 



p. 646 (1790) ; Bonn. Tabl. Encycl. Metli. i. p. 210 (1791) ; Vieill. 



N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxv. p. 223 (1817); Jaubert ^- Lapomiti. 



Rich. Orn. p. 421 (1859) [France] ; Fontaine, Faun. Luxemb., Ois. 



p. 177 (1865) ; Olphe-GaUiard, Faun. Oi-n. Europe Occ. fasc. xxxix, 



p. 35 (1886). 

 La petite Perdrix grise, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ii. p. 417 (1771). 

 Tetrao damascenus, 6'ot. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 758 (1788). 

 Perdix cinerea, var. D, Tenun. Pi</. et Gall. iii. pp. 392, 731 (1815). 

 Damascus Partridge, Lath. Gen. Hist. viii. p. 287 (182-3). 

 Perdix damascenus, Vieill. Fatm. Franq. p. 2-50 (1828). 

 Perdix cinerea, Malherbe, Faun. Orn. iSicil. p. 154 (1843). 

 Perdix minor, Brehn, Vogelfang, p. 267 (1855). 

 Starna cinerea, var. damascena, Svhn. Ornis, 1887, p. 537 [Alsace] ; 



Dubois, Ornis, 1890, p. 327 [Belgium]. 

 Starna cinerea, var. peregriana, Tschusi u. De la Torre, Ornis, 1888, 



p. 250 [Sdesia]. 



This is a smaller migratory race of P. perdix, perfectly similar 

 in plumage, and differing only in its somewhat smaller size, and in 

 having yellow legs and feet and apparently also a yellow bill in the 

 adult. Total length 9 inches, wing 5-9, tail 3"1, tarsus 1-4. 



Hah. Apparently an Alpine form, descending to the plains during 

 the cold season, when it is met with in very large flocks, which are 

 reported not to associate with the Common Partridge (P. perdix). 



a, b. Ad. et imm. sk. France. Riocour Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. [var.]. France. Eiocour Coll. 



2. Perdix daurica. 



Tetrao perdix, var daumica, Pall. Zoogr. Boss. -As. ii. p. 78 (1811) 



[Dauria]. 

 Perdix sibirica, Pall. Zoogr. Boss.'As. ii. Tp. 80 (1811); Gould, B. 



Asia, vi. text to pi. 73 (1871). 

 Perdix cinerea, var. daurica, Schrenck, Reis. Amur-L. i. p. 521 



(1859). 

 Perdix cinerea, Lamprey, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 221 [Tien-Tsin Market] ; 



Homeyer, J.f. O. 1870, p. 174. 

 Perdix (Starna) cinerea, var. rupestris davurica, Radde, Reise Ost- 



Sib. ii. p. 304, pi. xii. (1863). 

 Perdix barbata, Verr. ^- Desm. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 62, pi. ix. [Dauria] ; 



Sioinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 307 ; Verr. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 371 ; Gray, 



List GaUinee Brit. Mus. p.56 (18U7) ; Dybouski, J.f. O. 1868, p. 337 



[Dam'ia] ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 267 (1870) ; David, N. Arch. 



Mus. Bull. vii. p. 11 (1871) ; Gould, B. Asia, vi. pi. 73 (1871) ; 



Swinh. P.Z.S. 1871, p. 400; Tacz. J.f. O. 1873, p. 99; Heugl. 



J.f. O. 1874, p. 399; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 323; Tacz. Bull. Soc. 



Zool. Fr. i. p. 243 (1876) [Lake Baikal]; Prjev. Mongolia, ii. 



p. 123 (1876) ; id. Roivley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 422 (1877) [Kiachta 



and Dolon-nor to Sources of Yangtze-Eang] ; David ly Otistal. 



Ois. Chine, p. 392 (1877) ; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 80; Pleske, Bull. 



Acad. St. Pitersb. xiii. p. 297 (1892) [Tian-shan, Prov. of Guchen, 



Chami and Dzuugaria], 



