Philby’s Partridge
Philby's Partridge
Here the details of the Philby's Partridge named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Alectoris philby Bull.Br.Orn.Club 55 p.8
Taxonomy: Galliformes / Phasianidae / Alectoris
Taxonomy Code: phipar1
Type Locality:
Author: Lowe, PR
Publish Year: 1934
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ALECTORIS
(Phasianidae; Ϯ Barbary Partridge A. barbara) Gr. αλεκτορις alektoris, αλεκτοριδος alektoridos hen, chicken < αλεκτωρ alektōr, αλεκτορος alektoros cockerel; "1. Perdix petrosa. ... 1. Klipphuhn. Alectoris *). (Perdix petrosa). E[ntwickelung]. Wie gewöhnlich. Ch[arakter]. Feldhühner mit . . .federigem Schwanz, deren Männchen während der Begattungszeit kleine Höcker an den Tarsen bekommen. L[ebensart]. Es lebt auf den steinigen Gebirgen des südlichen Europa's, und gleicht in seiner Lebensart sehr dem Steinhuhn. ... *) Aλεκτορις, Huhn. ... Vierte Ordnung. Gallinaceae. ... 151. Alectoris (P. petrosa)." (Kaup 1829); "Alectoris Kaup, Skizz. Entw.-Gesch. Eur. Thierw., 1829, p. 180, 193. Type, by monotypy, Perdix petrosa auct. not of Gmelin = Perdix barbara Bonnaterre." (Peters 1934, II, p. 62).
Var. Alectornis.
Synon. Caccabis, Chacura, Chauvireria, Erythropus, Lambrechtia, Palaeocryptonyx, Pliogallus, Plioperdix, Proalector, Pyctes, Rufipes.
philbyi
Harry St John Bridger Philby (1885-1960) British explorer, Arabist, advisor to Abdul Aziz King of Saudi Arabia (Alectoris, syn. Calandrella blanfordi eremica, syn. Ochrospiza rothschildi).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)