PHASIANID^E. 141 



Order GALLING. 



Family PHASIANID^E. 



Genus PHASIANUS, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 270 (1766). 



Phasianus = Qaaiavos, the Phasian bird, in Aristophanes ; from the river 

 Phasis, in Colchis, whence it is said to have been first brought by the Argonautic 

 expedition. 



Phasianus colchicus. PHEASANT. 

 Phasianus colchicus, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 271 (1766) . 

 Phasianus colchicus, Naum. vi. p. 433; Macg. i. p. 114; 



Hewitson, p. 276; Gray, p. 123; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 310; 



id. ed. 3, ii. p. 320; Saunders, iii. p. 91; Gould, iv. 



pi. 12 ; Harting, p. 37; Dresser, vii. p. 85. 

 The Common Pheasant, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 277. 



Colchicus = of Colchis, a province of Asia east of the Black Sea, now 

 Mingrelia, through which the river Phasis, now Eion, flows. 



Generally distributed throughout the British Isles, where 

 it is naturalized, as also in the rest of Europe. Its true home 

 is South-eastern Europe and Asia Minor. 



Genus CACCABIS, Kaup, Naturl. Syst. p. 183 (1829). 



Caccabis icaKKafiis, a collateral form of KaKKafirj, a Partridge, in classical 

 Greek ; perhaps from its "cackling." Cf. KiKicafiav = the cry of the Screech-owl ; 

 butCurtius wrongly connects it with Ka/c/caw = cacdre, and compares Perdix, q. v. 



. 



GaccablS rula. KED-LEGGED PAETRIDGE. 

 Tetrao rufus, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 276 (1766). 



Perdix rubra, Naum. vi. p. 563; Macg. i. p. 215. 



Perdix rufa, Hewitson, p. 282 ; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 381 ; id. 



ed. 3, ii. p. 394 ; Harting, p. 40. 

 Caccabis rufa, Gray, p. 126 ; Dresser, vii. p. 103 ; Saunders, 



iii. p. 115. 



Caccabis rubra, Gould, iv. pi. 14. 

 The Red-legged Partridge, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 343. 



Rufa = red. 



