CACCABTS. SS 



grey, evenly distributed, over the shell. Some examples have small 

 blotches in addition to spots. They measure from 1-7 to 1-85 in 

 length, and from 1-2 to 1-3 in breadth. 



2. Swiss Alps, June. Seebohm Ooll, 



2. Swiss Alps. Seebohm Coll. 



4. Switzerland. Seebohm Coll. 



8. Switzerland. Seebohm Coll. 



Caccabis chukav (J. E. Gray). 



Perdix graeca, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 67< fig. 2 (1855-63) ; Bree,. 



Birds Eur. iii. p. 242, pi. — (1867). 

 Caccabis eaxatilis, Simpson, Ibis, 1860, p. 388; Tristram, Ibis, 1868, 



p. 213. 

 Caccabis chukar. Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 97 (1875); Grant, Cat. 



Birds B. M. xxii. p. 113 (,1893) ; Gates, Game Birds Ind. i. p. 179' 



(1898) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 22 (1899). 

 Caccabis chukor, Hume ^ Marsh. Game Birds Ind. ii. p. 33 (1879) ;. 



Gates ed. Hume, Nests ^ Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 431 (1890). 



Eggs of the Chukor Partridge taken in Greece are frequently 

 unmarked. Those from the Grecian Archipelago and Cyprus are 

 for the most part slightly spotted, and there are only two specimens 

 in the Collection from these parts which may be said to be boldly 

 marked. 



More to the eastward the eggs of this species are found to be in 

 all cases spotted and frequently blotched with purplish, reddish or 

 yellowish brown, and with grey and pink. They measure from. 

 1"55 to 1*9 in length, and from 1"15 to 1"3 in breadth. 



1. Laid in confinement (Zool. Gar- Salvin-Godman CoU. 



dens, London). 



2. Athens, 11th April {T. Ei-uper). Seebohm Coll. 

 9. Athens, 26th April (Seebohm Sf Seebohm Coll. 



Eriiper). 



3. Delphi, Greece, 3rd May {S. S; K.). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Delphi, 3rd May. Seebohm Coll. 



5. Tzipiana, Greece, 6th May ( W. H. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Simpson). 

 2. The Cyclades, 16th Aug. [T. Seebohm Coll, 

 Kriiper). 



4. Cyprus. Lord Lilford [P.]. 

 2. Mount Sinai. Gould Coll. 



1. Marsaba, Palestine, 30th March Salvin-Godman Ooll. 



{H. B. Tristram). 



6. Moab, March. Canon Tristram [C.]. 

 6. Jericho, March. Canon Tristram [C.I. 

 6. Jericho, March (H. B. Tristram). Salvin-Godman Ooll. 



4. Kirina, Persia, 1st Oct. Sir Kenneth Loftus [P.]. 



5. Kurdistan, 24th May. Sir Kenneth Loftus [P.J.- 



2. Tibet, 29th July, 16,000 feet Hume Coll. 



{F. Wilson). 

 2. India. Gould Coll. 



IB. Agrore Valley, May. Hume Coll. 



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