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CACCABIS PETEOSA. 



(BARBARY PARTRIDGE.) 



Red-legged Partridge from Barbary, Edwards, Nat. Hist. p. 70, pi. 70 (1747). 



Perdix rubra barbarica, Briss. Orn. i. p. 239 (1760). 



Tetrao rufus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p.' 277 (1766, partim). 



La Perdrh % rouge de Barbarie, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ii. p. 445 (1771). 



La Perdrix de Roche, Buff. torn. cit. p. 446 (1771). 



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



Perdix rufa y, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 647 (1790). 



Perdix petrosa (Gm.), Lath. torn. cit. p. 648 (1790). 



Alectoris, Kaup (Perdix petrosa, Lath.), Nattirl. Syst. p. 180 (1829). 



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



Pernice di Sardegna, Italian ; LI Hedjel, Moorish. 



Figures notabiles. 



Edwards, I. c. ; Werner, Atlas, Gallinaces, pi. 14 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 29. fig. 6 ; Gould, 

 B. of Eur. pi. 261. fig. 1 ; Roux, Orn. Prov. pi. 260. 



c? ad. pileo centrali a basi rostri, nucha et collo postico castaneis, capitis et pilei lateribus cum gula pallide 

 caerulescenti-cinereis : torque collari castaneo, lateraliter latiore, et albo guttato : dorso et corpore 

 supra grisescenti-brunneis : remigibus nigricanti-fuscis, primariis (extimo excepto) dimidio apicali in 

 pogonio externo ochrascentibus, secundariis pallidioribus indistincte nigro-fusco vermiculatis : scapu- 

 laribus saturate cinereis valde castaneo marginatis : rectricibus centralibus dorso concoloribus et vix 

 nigro-fusco vermiculatis, reliquis saturate castaneis : gutture imo cinereo, pectore pallide rufescente : 

 abdomine rufescenti-cervino, hypocbondriis ut in Caccabe rufd picturatis : rostro et pedibus rubris : 

 iride fusca. 



$ ad. mari similis, sed vix minor et sordidior. 



Adult Male (Sardinia, January). Centre of the crown from the base of the bill, nape, and hind neck rich 

 chestnut-red ; sides of the head, above and below the eye, and throat fight bluish ash or French grey ; 

 below this is a collar of rich chestnut-red, very broad on the sides of the neck and narrow in the centre, 

 being marked with small white round spots ; back and rump greyish brown; quills blackish brown, all 

 the primaries, except the first, with the terminal half of the outer web deep ochre-yellow, secondaries 

 lighter brown, very indistinctly vermiculated on the outer web with dark brown, outer scapulars and 

 some of the adjoining wing-coverts deep bluish ash, broadly margined with chestnut-red, remaining 

 wing-coverts like the back ; the four central rectrices coloured like the back, and slightly vermiculated 

 with dark blackish brown, the remaining rectrices dark foxy red; throat, below the red collar, bluish 

 ash; breast light reddish, this colour becoming rufous buff on the abdomen and under tail-coverts; 

 flanks marked with white, black, and foxy red, or chestnut, as in Caccabis rufa ; beak, the bare space 



