Identifier: historyofbirdsof03bree (find matches)
Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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N.E. Family PFFBICIDJE. (Bonaparte.) Genus Perdix. (Brisson.J First Section.—FEANCOLINS. Generic Characters.—Beak short, compressed, strong, nakedat the base; superior mandible arched, convex, and muchcurved near the point. Nostrils basal, lateral, half closed bya membrane, arched, and naked. Feet with three toes infront and one behind, those in front united by a membraneup to the first articulation. Tail composed of fourteen oreighteen feathers, short, wedge-shaped, and turned towards theground. Wings short, the three first primaries the shortest,the fourth and fifth the longest, the fifth generally the longest. FKANCOLIN. Perdix Francolinus. Perdix francolinus, Francolinus,Tetrao francolinus,Francolinus vulgaris,Chcetopus francolinus,Attagcn francolinus,Francolin a collier roux,Gerneines Spornfeldhuhn,Francolino, Latham. Temminck. Vieillot.Cuvier. Lesson. Schinz.schlegel.Brisson. LlNNiEUS. Stephens. Bonaparte. Swainson. Keyserling et Blasius. Of the French. Of the Germans. Savi.
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FRANCOLIN. 237 Specific Characters.—Upper tail coverts and tail Beautifullymarked with black and white, (male,) or with broader bands ofgrey and white, (female.) A red collar round the neck of themale, bordered on the back below with another band of blackfeathers and round white spots. Under tail coverts in both sexesdark red. Length of male thirteen inches; carpus to tip sixinches; tarsus two inches; middle toe and claw one inch andthree quarters; beak one inch and three tenths. Female eleveninches and a half long. The Francolin inhabits the south of Europe, especiallySicily, Malta, Cyprus, Sardinia, Naples, the GrecianArchipelago, and Turkey. From thence it rangesthrough the whole of Asia, and the vast prairies andmarshes of the north of Africa. With the exception,however, of Sicily and the Grecian Archipelago, theFrancolin is becoming a rare bird in Europe. Savitells us that in the sixteenth century they were common,as game birds, in Tuscany, and that special laws wereenacted by

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