GREEK PABTBIDGE. 147 



GALLING.. 



Fa^ml;/ PERDICID^. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Caccabis. (Kaup.J 



Generic Characters. — Bill somewhat lengthened, stout, red; tarsi of male 

 with a blunt spur, red ; tail of twelve to fourteen feathers, not quite 

 concealed by the upper tail coverts; a small nude patch behind the eye; 

 plumage not mottled. 



GREEK PARTRIDGE. 



Caccabis grceca. 



Caccabis grcBca, Bonaparte. Gray; H. List, No. 9803. 



Perdix grceca, Gesner; Icones Avium, p. 64, 1553. 



"■ " Brisson, 1760. Bree; first edition. 



" ru/a, LiNN^us. Vieillot. 



" saxatilis, Meyer et Wolff. 



Bartavelle Grecque, Of the French. 

 Stein-rotliehahn, Rot-Jiahn, 



or Weltsch-Raeb-hahn, Of the Germans. 



Coturnice, Of the Italians. 



Specific Characters. — Throat and upper part of the fore-neck white or 

 cream-coloured, which is separated from the unicolorous dove-coloured cross 

 by a black band, broader at the sides, which extends from each eye. The 

 central tail feathers extend for three quarters of an inch beyond the under 

 tail coverts. Length thirteen inches and a half to fifteen inches ; wing from 

 carpus six inches and a half; tarsus two inches, middle toe and claw rather 

 longer; beak three quarters of an inch. 



The bird whicli I have now to notice has been well known for 

 three hundred years as Perdix grceca, or the Greek Partridge. It is 

 closely allied to the K.ed-leg, or French. Partridge, but is at once 



