Daurian Partridge

SCI Name:  Perdix dauurica
Protonym:  Tetrao perdix var. dauurica Zoogr.Rosso-Asiat. 2 p.78
Taxonomy:  Galliformes / Phasianidae / Perdix
Taxonomy Code:  daupar1
Type Locality:  
Author:  Pallas
Publish Year:  1811
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PERDIX
(Phasianidae; Ϯ Grey Partridge P. perdix) L. perdix, perdicis  partridge  < Gr. περδιξ perdix, περδικος perdikos  partridge (cf. Gr. myth. Perdix, noted artist and skilled craftsman, nephew of the jealous Daedalus, by whom he was murdered, then metamosphosed into a partridge); "Perdix. Genus 6.  ...  Genus Perdicis.  Le genre du Perdrix  ...  **1. LA PERDRIX GRISE  ...  PERDIX CINEREA" (Brisson 1760): based on "Perdix" or "Perdix cinerea" of many authors; "Perdix Brisson, Orn., 1, 1760, p. 26, 219. Type, by tautonymy, Perdix cinerea Brisson = Tetrao perdix Linné." (Peters 1934, II, 87).
Var. Perdiz, Perdrix.
Synon. Sacfa, Starna.

perdix
L. perdix, perdicis  partridge  < Gr. περδιξ perdix, περδικος perdikos  partridge.
● “Magnitudine Perdicis s. C. Columba minor et probe distincta atque constans species” (Pallas 1811) (Brachyramphus).
● "Rhynchotus perdix ("Molina") Gray (and Mitchell), Gen. Bds., 3, p. [525], 1844—new name for Crypturus perdicarius Kittlitz; Pelzeln, Reise Novara, 1, Vögel, p. 113, 1865—Chile." (Hellmayr & Conover 1942, XIII, 88) (syn. Nothoprocta perdicaria).
● "91. TETRAO.  ...  Perdix.  9. T. pedibus nudis, macula nuda coccinea pone oculos, cauda ferruginea, sterno brunneo. Fn. svec. 172.  Perdix cinerea. Aldr. orn. l. 13. c. 19. Jonst. av. 68. t. 27. f. 1. Will. orn. 119. t. 29. Raj. av. 57. Alb. av. l. p. 25. t. 27.  Habitat in Europæ agris.  Hyeme habitat intra fossas nivis utraque extremitate apertas." (Linnaeus 1758) (Perdix).

dauura / dauurica / dauuricae / dauuricus
Dauria, south-eastern Siberia (after the Dauuri or Daguuri, a nomadic Mongolian tribe that inhabited the area).

SUBSPECIES

Daurian Partridge (dauurica)
SCI Name: Perdix dauurica dauurica
dauura / dauurica / dauuricae / dauuricus
Dauria, south-eastern Siberia (after the Dauuri or Daguuri, a nomadic Mongolian tribe that inhabited the area).

Daurian Partridge (suschkini)
SCI Name: Perdix dauurica suschkini
suschkini / suschkiniana
Prof. Dr Petr Petrovich Sushkin (1868-1928) Russian zoologist, palaeontologist (syn. Alcedo atthis, syn. Emberiza pallasi (ex Cynchramus pallasii montana Sushkin, 1925), syn. Gavia arctica, subsp. Locustella davidi, subsp. Numenius arquata, subsp. Perdix dauurica, syn. Perisoreus infaustus sibericus, syn. Poecile montanus songarus, syn. Trachyphonus vaillantii suahelicus).