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Icterus phoeniceus. Bonap. Synops. 52. Agelaius phoe- 

 niceus. Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amer. ii. 280. 

 Agelaius phoeniceus, Audub. Synops. 141. Agelaius phoe- 

 niceus, Yarrell, Brit. Birds, Suppl. 30. 



ORDER XII, RADRICES. 



FAMILY XXX. PERDICINJE. 



GENUS LXXIX. PERDIX. PARTRIDGE. 



331. PERDIX PETROSA. BARBARY PARTRIDGE. 



Adult male with the bill, the bare space around the eyes, 

 the tarsi, toes, and claws, red ; sides of the head bluish-grey ; 

 its upper part and the hind-neck chestnut-brown ; neck with 

 a broad collar of the same, spotted with white j back and 

 tail greyish -brown, wing-coverts edged with light-red; 

 primary quills brownish- black, with the outer web greyish- 

 brown j fore-neck bluish-grey, breast buff; sides barred with 

 black, white, and chestnut ; the rest of the lower parts 

 reddish- yellow. Female with the colours duller, the tarsi 

 without tubercles. 



Male, 13, . ., 6. 



This species is very extensively distributed in Africa, 

 especially along the Mediterranean, and occurs in Turkey, 

 Greece, Calabria, Sweden, Spain, and France. It inha- 

 bits barren or rugged tracts, feeding on seeds and insects, 

 and deposits numerous eggs, of a faded yellow, dotted 

 with greenish-yellow. In April 1842, an individual was 

 found dead at Edmondthorpe, about six miles from Mel- 

 ton Mowbray, in Leicestershire. Information of this was 

 given to Mr. Yarrell, by Mr. Robert Widdowson, who had 

 the specimen in his possession. Mr. Yarrell further states, 

 that it now belongs to Mr. Thomas Goatley, of Chipping 

 Norton, Oxfordshire, who lent it for his use. 



Perdix petrosa. Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 648. Perdix petrosa, 

 Temm. Man. d' Ornith. ii. 487. Perdix petrosa, Yarrell, 

 Brit. Birds, Suppl. 39. 



ORDER XII. RADRICES. 

 FAMILY XXX. PERDICIN^E. 

 GENUS. HEMIPODIUS. HEMIPODE. 

 The species of which this genus is composed are all 



