Definition of Genus perdix

1. Noun. A genus of Perdicinae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Perdix

genus Pelargonium
genus Pelecanus
genus Pellaea
genus Pellicularia
genus Peltandra
genus Peltiphyllum
genus Penelope
genus Peneus
genus Penicillium
genus Pennatula
genus Pennisetum
genus Penstemon
genus Peperomia
genus Perca
genus Percina
genus Perdix
genus Pereskia
genus Pericallis
genus Peridinium
genus Perilla
genus Periophthalmus
genus Peripatopsis
genus Peripatus
genus Periplaneta
genus Periploca
genus Perisoreus
genus Peristedion
genus Pernis
genus Perodicticus
genus Perognathus

Literary usage of Genus perdix

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Naturalist's Library by William Jardine (1834)
"The genus Perdix was established by Brisson, taking the common European partridge as typical, but it was made to contain an assemblage of birds, ..."

2. Reports on Zoology for 1843, 1844 by Andreas Johann Wagner, Franz Hermann Troschel, Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson, Carl Th. Ernst Siebold (1847)
"He receives the genus Perdix in the same sense as Bonaparte, and consequently excludes from it ... His arrangement is as follows: I. Sub-genus Perdix. ..."

3. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1897)
"The genus Perdix, of which our well-known Partridge is the type, has the feathers scarcely extending below the tibio-tarsal joint, and the tail-feathers are ..."

4. The Natural History of Game-birds: Illustrated by Thirty-one Plates by William Jardine (1844)
"The genus Perdix was established by Brisson, taking the common European partridge as typical, but it was made to contain an assemblage of birds, ..."

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