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The grey partridge is a rotund bird, brown-backed, with grey flanks and chest. The belly is white, usually marked with a large chestnut-brown horse-shoe mark in males, and also in many females. Hens lay up to twenty eggs in a ground nest. The nest is usually in the margin of a cereal field, most commonly winter wheat. Measurements: [9]
Gentle to the human stomach, partridge stimulated bodily fluids, raised the spirits, and firmed the muscles." [3] Probably the most famous reference to the partridge is in the Christmas carol, "The Twelve Days of Christmas". [4] The first gift listed is "a partridge in a pear tree", and these words end each verse.
The genus Perdix was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the grey partridge (Perdix perdix) as the type species. [1] [2] The genus name is Latin for "partridge", which is itself derived from Ancient Greek ‘πέρδιξ’ (pérdīx). [3] They are closely related to grouse, koklass, quail and pheasants. [4]
Partridge. Quail. Size. Up to 12 in Long; Up to 0.75 lbs. 1 lb; 6-7in in Tall. Colors. Males have Black Faces with white stripes, Females are Mark Free. Wide Range of Hues; Can be Black with speckles
Phasianidae is a family of heavy, ground-living birds, which includes pheasants, grouse, partridges, junglefowl, chickens, turkeys, Old World quail, and peafowl.The family includes many of the most popular gamebirds. [1]
Johnson, J Mangalaraj (1968) Grey Partridge abandoning nest on removal of grass cover over its path to nest. Indian Forester 94:780. Davis, G (1939) On Indian Grey and Black Partridges (Francolinus pondicerianus and Francolinus francolinus). The Avicultural Magazine, 5 4(5):148-151. Gabriel, A (1970) Some observations on the Ceylon Grey Partridge.
Perdicinae is a polyphyletic former subfamily of birds in the pheasant family, Phasianidae, regrouping the partridges, Old World quails, and francolins. [1] Although this subfamily was considered monophyletic and separated from the pheasants, tragopans, junglefowls, and peafowls (Phasianinae) till the early 1990s, [1] [2] molecular phylogenies have shown that these two subfamilies actually ...
If you're still harboring a crush on the late David Cassidy, don't be ashamed -- it's hard to believe that it's been more than 40 years since "The Partridge Family" went off the air.