GALLINACEA. 31g. 
Tetr. albus, Gm., calied of Hudson’s Bay; 7’. saliceti, Tem., 
Edw. 72; Frisch. 110,111. (The White Ptarmigan). From the 
whole north; is larger, and its summer plumage more red; its belly 
remains white*. 
There is a Ptarmigan in Scotland, however, which does not change its 
plumage in winter; it is, 
Tetr. scoticus, Lath.; Poule de marais; Grous, &c.; Albin. 1, 
23, 24; Brit. Zool. pl. M. 3; Vieill. Galer. 221. (The Red Ptar- 
migan, or Water Fowl). Above, variegated with fawn colour, brown 
aud black; a deep red, striped with blackish beneath; legs cine- 
reous, and but few feathers on the toes. 
We may separate by the name of 
Ganea or AtTaAGeN}.—Preroc es, Tem. 
Those species which have a pointed tail and naked toes. The circum- 
ference of their eyes only is naked, but it is not of a red colour; their 
thumb is very small. 
Tetr. alchata, L.; Ganga, Enl. 105 and 106; Edw. 249f. 
The size of a Partridge; the plumage scalloped with fawn colour 
and brown; the two middle quills of the tail much elongated and 
terminating in a point; throat of the male, black. Found in the 
south of France, and all round the Mediterranean §. 
Perpix, Briss. 
The Partridges have the tarsi naked like the toes. Among them the 
Francouinus, T'em. 
Is distinguished by a longer and stronger bill; a larger tail, and, gene- 
rally speaking, by stout spurs. The south of Europe produces one, 
Tetrao francolinus, L.||; Enl. 147, 148; Edw. 246. With red 
feet; neck and belly of the male, black, with round white spots; a 
bright red collar **, 
* The summer plumage forms the Tetr. lapponicus, Lath. 
} <Attagen, the Greek name of a heavy bird, somewhat larger than the Partridge, 
with the plumage of a Woodcock, probably designated the Ganga. 
{ Ganga is its Catalonian name; Alchata, or rather Chata, its name among the 
Arabs. 
§ Add of those species which have filaments to the tail, Tetr. senegalus, or Pterocles 
guttatus, Tem., Enl. 130, and the female 345;—Pterocles exustus, Tem. Coll. 354 
and 360:—Of those whose tail is simply pointed, Jetr. arenarius, Pall., Nov. Com. 
Petrop. XIX, pl. viii, or Pterocles arenarius, Col. 52 and 53, the same as the Perdix 
arragonica, Lath.;—Pterocles Lichtensteinii, T. Col. 8355 and 861. The male 355 is 
at all events closely allied to the Teir. indicus, Lath.; Sonner. IJ, 96;—Péerocles cu- 
ronatus, Tem. Col. 339 and 340;—Pterocles quadricinctus, Tem. or Ocenas bicinctus, 
Vieill. Galer. 220;—finally, the largest species, the Tetr. fasianellus, Gm., or Long- 
tailed Gelinotte of Hudson’s Bay, Edw. 117. 
i| Francolino, the name of the blind made for the purpose of killing the bird whose 
appellation it bears, is applied in Italy to several species, such as the Gelinotte and 
this one. 
** Add the Tetrao ponticerianus, Sonner. Voy. IT, 11, 165; Tem. Col. 213 ;—per- 
latus, Briss., pl. xxviii, A, fig. 1; Vieill. Galer. 213; the same as the madagascariensis, 
Sonn. II, 166, pl. xevii. 
