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CACCABIS SAXATILIS. 



(GREEK PARTRIDGE.) 



Perdix grceca, Briss. Orn. i. p. 241 (1760, partim). 



Tetrao rufus, Scop. Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 120 (1769, nee Linn.). 



Le Bartavelle ou Perdrix grecque, Buff'. Hist. Nat. Ois. ii. p. 420 (1771). 



Perdix saxatilis, Meyer, Vog. Deutschl. part viii. (1805). 



Caccabis, Kaup (Perdix saxatilis, Meyer), Natiirl. Syst. p. 183 (1829). 



Perdix rupestris, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 522 (1831). 



Chacura grceca, G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of B. p. 79 (1841). 



Caccabis grceca, G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, iii. p. 508 (1849). 



1 Caccabis saxatilis (Meyer), W. H. Simpson, Ibis, 1860, p. 388. 



Bartavelle, French; Steinhuhn, Berghuhn, German; Gotornice, Italian. 



Figures notabiles. 



D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 231; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 261. fig. 2; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. 

 taf. 164; Frisch, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 116. 



6 ad. fronte, plumis circum basin rostri et stria magna per oculos ducta et in gula ima, confluente nigris : 

 pileo cano, in parte frontali et lateraliter fere albo : nucha cana, vix cervino tincta, : corpore supra 

 caerulescenti-cano, dorso vinaceo lavato : remigibus saturate fuscis, primariis in pogonio externo versus 

 apicem fere omnino ochraceis, secundariis extus albicante ochraceo marginatis, secundariis intimis dorso 

 concoloribus sed brunneo vix lavatis : tectricibus alarum minoribus vinaceo marginatis : rectricibus 

 centralibus caeruleseenti-canis, reliquis ferrugineis, ad basin caerulescenti-canis : mento et gula, albis : 

 pectore cserulescenti-cano, plumis vix cervino marginatis : abdomine et subcaudalibus ochraceis : hypo- 

 chondrias caeruleo, nigro et albo variis et castaneo apicatis : rostro et pedibus rubris : iride fusca. 



2 ad. mari similis sed minor et paullo sordidior. 



Adult Male (Naples, loth February). Forehead, feathers at the base of the bill all round, and a broad stripe 

 passing through and behind the eye, down the sides of the neck, where it broadens and meets in front, 

 black ; crown blue-grey, or dove-blue, nearly pure white round the margin, where it meets the black, and 

 on the nape tinged with vinous buff; upper parts dove-blue, on the back washed with warm vinous, the 

 lesser wing-coverts margined with this latter colour ; quills dark brown, the outer web of the primaries 

 towards the tip almost entirely warm ochre, secondaries margined externally with yellowish white ; the 

 inner secondaries and scapulars coloured like the rest of the upper parts, but washed with buffy brown ; 

 central rectrices dove-blue, the remainder deep fox-red, and blue only on the basal portion, which is 

 covered by the tail-coverts ; chin and throat inside the black band white ; breast dove-blue, the feathers 

 slightly edged with pale buff; abdomen and under tail-coverts warm ochre-yellow; feathers on the 

 flanks dove-blue, then crossed by a black band, then white, and terminated by a black band slightly 

 tipped with chestnut-red ; legs, bill, and edge of the eyelid coral-red ; iris dark brown. Total length 

 about 14 inches, culmen 085, wing 6-4, tail 39, tarsus F7. 



