JOURNAL 
OF THE 
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Marcu 1922 Vout. XXVIII. No. 2. 
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THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. 
BY 
fae osruar® DAKkeR, FL:S....F.Z:8., M.5.0.U., ©.F.A.0.U. 
Part XXXI, 
(Continued from page 22 of this Volume.) 
(With a plate.) 
Genus ALECTORIS, Kaup. 
Hartert in Novitates Zoologice has dealt very fully w ith the genus 
we in India have hitherto known as Caccabis. In Volume XXIV, 
p. 275, he shows that the proper name for this genusis Alectoris and 
in the following pages he deals with the species and sub-species at length, 
and with his usual care and thoroughness, although unfortunately 
he does not give us a summary of the results of his deductions at the 
end in accordance with his general custom. In so far as our Indian 
birds are concerned, I follow this paper. 
The typical form of the species Alectoris grawca greca is -found, 
as its name denotes in Greece and thence various geogtaphical forms 
range over practically the whole of South, West, Central and East 
Europe, Western and Central Asia to India, two races entering our 
limits. 
In Alectoris the sexes are alike. They are Partridges of moderate 
size, and almost uniform upper plumage, but have the flanks conspi- 
cuously barred with black and chestnut, the tail is rounded and about 
equal to two-thirds the length of the wing; the latter is short and 
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