Local 
varieties. 
Local 
varieties. 
Haunt. 
314 GALLINA. PERDIX. ComMon 
SECTION I. 
With the tarsus tuberculated or smooth. In the wing the 
fifth quillis the longest. Inhabit the plains, and never perch 
on trees. 
Common Partridge.—Perdix cinerea, Lath. 
PLATE 61. 
Perdix cinerea,—Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2. p. 645. sp. 9. 
Tetrao perdix, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 276. 13.—Faun. Suec. No. 205.—Gmei. 
Syst. l. p. 757. sp. 13. 
Perdix cinerea, Rati, Syn. p. 57. A. 2.—Wiill. p. 118. t. 28.—Briss. 1. 
. 219. 1. 
( Bee montana, Lath. Ind. Ornith. v- 2. p. 646. sp. 11. 
Tetrao montanus, Gmel. Syst. p. 788. sp. 33. 
1 Perdix Damascena, Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2. p. 646. sp. 10. 
('Tetrao Damascena, Gmel. Syst. p. 758. 
La Perdrix Grise, Buff: Ois. v. 2. p. 401.—Id. Pl. Enl. 27. female.— 
Temm. pig. et Gall. v. 3. p. 378.—Jd. Man. d’Ornith. v. 2. p. 488. 
La petite Perdrix, Buff: Ois. v. 2. p. 417. 
Perdrix de Montagne, Buff: Ois. v. 2. p. 419.—Id. Pl. Enl. 136., a local 
variety. 
Concies oder Graues Feldhuhn. Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 1361.— 
Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 303.—Frisch. Vog. t. 114. male, 
t. 114. B. red variety, and t. 115. white or cream-coloured var. 
Common Partridge, Br. Zool. 1. No. 96.—Arct. Zool. 2. p. 319. A.— 
Will. Angl. p. 166. t. 28.—Albin. 1. t. 27.—Lath. Syn. 4. p. 762. 8.— 
Mont. Ornith. Dict.—id. Supp.—Lewin’s By. Birds, 4. t. 136.—Wale. 
Syn. 2. t.§184.—Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 7.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. p.- 
t. 305. 
Damascus Partridge, Lath. Syn. v. 4. p. 764. 9. 
Mountain Partridge, Lath. Syn. v. 4. p. 765. 10. 
This well known species of game is abundant throughout 
the kingdom, except in some of the mountainous and moory 
wastes in the northern counties of England, and in the High- 
lands ef Scotland, the peculiar localities of the preceding 
genus.—Districts well interspersed with arable land are the 
most favourable to the habits and economy of the partridge ; 
thus, an extended cultivation, which has rendered many of 
our British birds comparatively rare, and has caused indeed 
the extinction or banishment of some, has tended greatly to 
its increase ; and we accordingly find the species most plenti- 
