142 PHASIANID^. 



Naturalized in the east of England. Found in Eastern 

 and Southern Europe. 



Caccabis petrosa. Baebart Partridge. 



Tetrao petrosus^ Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 758 (1788). 



Caccabis petrosa^ Gray, p. 127 j Dresser, vii. p. Ill; Saunders, 



iii. p. 121. 

 Perdix petrosa, Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 387; id. ed. 3, ii. p. 400; 



Hurting, p. 129. 



Petrosa = haunting rooks, irerpai. 



A rare straggler to England. It inhabits Southern Europe 

 and Northern Africa. 



Genus PERDIX, Brisson, Ornith. i. p. 219 (1760). 



Perdix = nepSi^, a Partridge, in classical authors ; probably from the root 

 of irepSo/iai = pedere, eum enim sonum edit. Cf. Caccabis, from KOKKaui 

 (Curtius) ; Old Norse rjupa = ptarmigan, rofa = eructare. 



Perdix cinerea. Partridge. 



Perdix cinerea, Latham, Gen. Syn. Suppl. pt. 1, p. 290 



(1787). 

 Tetrao Perdix, Linnmus, S. N. i. p. 276 (1766). 



Perdix cinerea, Naum. vi. p. 4^77 ; Macg. i. p. 218 ; Hewitson, 

 p. 281 ; Gr-ay, p. 127 ; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 370; id. ed. 3, 

 ii. p. 383; Saunders, iii, p. 105; Gould, iv. pi. 13; 

 Harting, p. 39; Dresser, vii. p. 131. 



The Common Partridge, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 333. 



Cinerea = ash-coloured ; from cineres = ashes. 



The Partridge occurs throughout the British Isles, and is 

 generally distributed through temperate Europe and Eastern 

 Asia to Persia and Turkestan. 



Genus COTURNIX, Bonnaterre, Encycl. Meth. i. p. 217 



(1790). 



Coiurnioi = a Quail, in classical Latin. Etymology unknown. 



