GALLINJ^. 
Family PERDICID^. (Bonaparte.) 
Genus Pekutx. ( Brisson.J 
GREEK PARTRIDGE. 
Per (lice Grceca. 
Perdix Grceca, 
(( (( 
“ Tufa, 
“ saxatilis, 
Bai'tavelle Grecque, 
Stein-roth ehuhn, Rot-liuhn, 
or Weltsch-Raeb-hun, 
Coiurnice, 
AoJeer-Hoena, 
Gesner; leones Avium, p. 64, 1553. 
Brisson; 1760. 
LiNN.ai:us. Vieillot. 
Meyer et Wolff. 
Of the French. 
Of the Germans. 
Savi. 
Of the Swedes. 
Specific Characters. — Throat and upper part of the front neck 
w'hite or cream-coloured, which is separated from the unicolorous 
dove-coloured cross by a black band, broader at the sides, which 
extends from each eye. The central tail feathers extend for 
three quarters of an inch beyond the under tail coverts. Length 
thirteen inches and a half to fifteen inches ; carpus to tip six 
inches and a half ; tarsus two inches, middle toe and claw rather 
longer; beak three quarters of an inch. 
The bird wbicb I have now to notice has been 
well known for three hundred years as Perdix Grceca, 
or the Greek Partridge. It is closely allied to the 
