GREEK PARTRIDGE. 
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in Greece and the islands of the Archipelago, in 
Italy, Sicily, Switzerland, and Turkey. Thence it 
spreads into Syria, being replaced in Persia and 
India by the form known as P. chukar. It is found 
in some parts of Germany and France, and among 
the mountains of the Jura, the Alps, and the Pyrenees. 
Specimens from Ja^jan are, according to Temminck, 
exactly like those found in Europe. Lord Lilford, 
(“Ibis,” vol. ii, p. 238,) says it is the Common 
Partridge of the Epirus and the Ionian Islands, but is 
not very abundant in Corfu, where it is only met 
Avith on the ridge of San Salvador. He further 
remarks: — “The Greek Partridge haunts the stony hill 
sides, never, as far as my oAvn observation goes, 
descending to the plain. It is not easy to make a 
good bag of these birds, even in localities where they 
are numerous, as the coveys disperse on being disturbed, 
and on alighting each bird takes a line of its OAvn, 
and sets off running to the nearest covert, Avhich, in 
these parts, generally consists of thick evergreen shrubs, 
from Avhich it is very difficult to flush them. In the 
Ionian Islands they are most abundant in Cephalonia, 
Santa jNIaura, Kalumo, Petula, Arkudi, and Meganisi. 
The flesh of this species is, to my taste, far su^Acrior 
to that of either of its congeners, P. ruhra or P. 
petrosaP 
The habit above mentioned by Lord Lilford, of 
frequenting stony and rocky j)laces, is doubtless the 
reason Avhy Meyer thought it right to alter the name 
of this bird, from that which it had possessed for 
centuries, to that of Pcrdix saxatilis, a most uncalled- 
for and unjustifiable innovation. 
The Greek Partridge scrapes a hole near a rock or 
stone, Avhich it fills Avith stalks and leaA^es, and in 
