Definition of Perdicinae

1. Noun. Old World partridges.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Perdicinae

Perca flavescens
Perca fluviatilis
Percherons
Percidae
Percina
Percina tanasi
Percival
Percival Lowell
Percoll
Percophidae
Percy
Percy Aldridge Grainger
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Grainger
Perdicidae
Perdicinae (current term)
Perdix perdix
Pere Jacques Marquette
Peregrine
Perejil
Pereskia
Pereskia aculeata
Perez
Perez' sign
Perez reflex
Perfecter of the Elect
Pergamum
Periactin
Pericallis
Pericallis cruenta

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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