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Order GALLIN-ffi. 



Family PHASIANIDiE. 

 Genus PHASIANUS, Linnmis, S. N. i. p. 270 (1766). 



PhobMmis = ipaaiavSs, the Phasian bird, in Aristophanes ; from the river 

 Phasis, in Colchis, whence it is said to have been first brought by the Argonautic 

 expedition. 



Phasianus COlchicus. Pheasant. 

 Phasianus colchicusj Linnmus, S. N. i. p. 271 (1766) . 

 Phasianus colchicus, Naum. vi. p. 433 ; Macg. i. p. 114 ; 



Hewitson, p. 276; Gray, p. 123; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 310; 



id. ed. 3, ii. p. 320; Saunders, iii. p. 91; Gould, iv. 



pi. 12; Harting, p. 37; Dresser, yii. p. 85. 

 The Common Pheasant^ Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 277. 



Colchicus = of Colchis, a province of Asia east of the Black Sea, now 

 MingreHa, through which the river Phasis, now Eion, flows. 



Generally distributed throughout the British IsleS; where 

 it is naturalized, as also in the rest of Europe. Its true home 

 is South-eastern Europe and Asia Minor. 



Genus CACCABIS, Kaup, Naturl. Syst. p. 183 (1829). 



Caccabis = KaKKa/3i's, a collateral form of KUKica^r], a Partridge, in classical 

 Greek ; perhaps from its "cackling." Cf. niKKajiav = the cry of the Screech-owl ; 

 butOurtius wrongly connects it with KUKicau) = cacdre, and compares PertZja?, q. v. 



Caccabis rufa. Red-legged Partridge. 



Tetrao rufus, imra«MS, S. N. i. p. 276 (1766). 



Perdix rubra, Naum. vi. p. 563; Macg. i. p. 215. 



Perdix rufa, Hewitson, p. 282 ; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 381 ; id. 



ed. 3, ii. p. 394; Harting, p. 40. 

 Caccabis rufa. Gray, p. 126 ; Dresser, vii. p. 103 ; Saunders, 



iii. p. 115. 

 Caccabis rubra, Gould, iv. pi. 14. 

 The Red-legged Partridge, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 343. 



Eufa = red. 



