142 PHASIANIM. 



Naturalized in the east of England. Found in -Eastern 

 and Southern Europe. 



Caccabis petrosa. BARBARY PARTRIDGE. 

 Tetrao petrosus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 758 (1788). 



Caccabis petrosa, Gray, p. 127; Dresser, vii. p. Ill; Saunders, 



iii. p. 121. 

 Perdix petrosa, Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 387; id. ed. 3, ii. p. 400; 



Harting, p. 129. 



Petrosa = haunting rocks, irerpai. 



A rare straggler to Enland. It inhabits Southern Europe 



f ~^~ -^ rare sragger o ng 

 *W Northern Africa. 



Genus PERDIX, Brisson, Ornith. i. p. 219 (1760). 



Perdix = 7repdi%, a Partridge, in classical authors ; probably from the root 

 of Trepdofjiai = pedere, eum enim sonum edit. Cf. Caccabis, from KUKKCIW 

 (Curtius) ; Old Norse rjupa = ptarmigan, ropa = eructare. 



Perdix cinerea. PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix cinerea, Latham, Gen. Syn. Suppl. pt. 1, p. 290 



(1787). 

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



Perdix cinerea, Naum. vi. p. 477 ; Macg. i. p. 218 ; Hewitson, 

 p. 281 ; Gray, p. 127 ; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 370; id. ed. 3, 

 ii. p. 383; Saunders, iii. p. 105; Gould, iv. pi. 13; 

 Harting, p. 39; Dresser, vii. p. 131. 



The Common Partridge, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 333. 



Cinerea = ash-coloured ; from cmeres = ashes. 



The Partridge occurs throughout the British Islesf^nd is 

 generally distributed through temperate Europe and Eastern 

 Asia to Persia and Turkestan. 



Genus COTURNIX, Bonnaterre, Encycl. Meth. i. p. 217 



(1790). 



Coturnix = a Quail, in classical Latin. Etymology unknown. 



