94 PERDIX. 



spurred legs, and there are several other modified 

 forms which will undoubtedly form subgenera, such 

 as the large bare-necked pheasant-looking partridges 

 of Africa, but as we do not think the present work 

 suitable for characterising new genera, or for enter- 

 ing into minute distinctions, with the exception of 

 Ortyx and the Quails, we have kept them under the 

 denomination of Perdix, but will point out the most 

 marked distinctions as they occur. We have repre- 

 sented as typical of the true partridges 



