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Definition of Perdicinae
1. Noun. Old World partridges.
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Family Phasianidae, Phasianidae
Member holonyms: Partridge, Genus Perdix, Perdix, Alectoris, Genus Alectoris, Genus Oreortyx, Oreortyx
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perdicinae
Literary usage of Perdicinae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shooting on Upland, Marsh, and Stream: A Series of Articles Written by by William Bruce Leffingwell (1890)
"... in their "Check List of American Birds," where they reject the name quail,
and place the bird in the subfamily Perdicinae, or partridges, ..."
2. Shooting on Upland, Marsh, and Stream: A Series of Articles Written by by William Bruce Leffingwell (1890)
"... and place the bird in the subfamily Perdicinae, or partridges, a summary of
their classification being as follows: Order Gallinae—gallinaceous birds. ..."
3. Bulletin by New York State Museum of Natural History, New York State Museum (1909)
"Xot including the pygostyle, there usually are but four free caudal vertebrae in
the tail of any species of the Perdicinae. This is a reduction compared ..."
4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1893)
"... are as emphatically northern as the Perdicinae are southern. Of the six North
American genera, three are circumboreal, ..."
5. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"... as do certain Grouse (p. 238), and feed on grass, insects, berries, and shoots
of juniper or pine. If a Sub-family Perdicinae be admitted, ..."
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