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GALLING. 



Family PEBDICIDJE. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Pehdix. (Brisson.) 



GREEK PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix Grceca. 



Perdix Grceca, Gesner; Icones Avium, p. 64, 1553. 

 Brisson; 1760. 



" rufa, Linn^tts. Yieillot. 



" saxatilis, Meyek et Wolff. 



Bartavelle Grecque, Of the French. 

 Stein-rothehuhn, Rot-huhn, 



or Weltsch-Raeb-hun, Of the Germans. 



Coturnice, Sati. 



Aoker-Hoena, Of the Swedes. 



Specific Characters. — Throat and upper part of the front neck 

 white 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 which 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 



