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Definition of Genus perdix
1. Noun. A genus of Perdicinae.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Perdicidae, Perdicinae, Subfamily Perdicidae, Subfamily Perdicinae
Member holonyms: Gray Partridge, Grey Partridge, Hungarian Partridge, Perdix Perdix
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Perdix
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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