Stone Partridge

SCI Name:  Ptilopachus petrosus
Protonym:  Tetrao petrosus Syst.Nat. 1 pt2 p.758
Taxonomy:  Galliformes / Odontophoridae / Ptilopachus
Taxonomy Code:  stopar1
Type Locality:  Gambia.
Author:  Gmelin, JF
Publish Year:  1789
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PTILOPACHUS
(Odontophoridae; Ϯ Stone Partridge P. petrosus) Gr. πτιλον ptilon  feather; παχυς pakhus  thick, dense; “Ptilopachus, Sw.  Bill small, slender.  Nostrils naked, very large, occupying one half the length of the bill.  Wings rounded.  Tail broad, rounded, larger and longer than in Perdix; the feathers very soft.  Feathers of the back and rump with the shafts thickened, and apparently spinous, as in Ceblepyris.  Tarsus shorter than the middle toe.  Lateral toes nearly equal.  Africa and India.    P. erythrorynchus.  West. Af. ii.” (Swainson 1837); "Ptilopachus Swainson, Classif. Bds., 2, 1837, p. 344. Type, by monotypy, Ptilopachus erythrorhynchus Swainson = Tetrao petrosus Gmelin." (Peters 1934, II, 104). The Stone Partridge and Nahan's Forest Partridge P. nahani were formerly considered Afrotropical members of the Phasianidae, but recent genetic investigations have revealed their true association with the American quails, wood quails and bobwhites.
Var. Ptilopachys, Ptilophachus.
Synon. Acentrortyx, Petrogallus.

petrosa / petrosus
L. petrosus  rocky, full of rocks  < petra  rock, stone  < Gr. πετρα petra  rock.
● ex “Perdrix de roche” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (syn. Alectoris barbara).
● ex “Perdrix de roche ou de la Gambia” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Rufousbreasted Partridge” of Latham 1783 (Ptilopachus).

SUBSPECIES

Stone Partridge (Stone)
SCI Name: Ptilopachus petrosus petrosus
petrosa / petrosus
L. petrosus  rocky, full of rocks  < petra  rock, stone  < Gr. πετρα petra  rock.
● ex “Perdrix de roche” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (syn. Alectoris barbara).
● ex “Perdrix de roche ou de la Gambia” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Rufousbreasted Partridge” of Latham 1783 (Ptilopachus).

Stone Partridge (Ethiopian)
SCI Name: Ptilopachus petrosus major
major
L. maior, maioris  greater, larger  < comp. magnus  great, large, powerful.
● ex “Poule d’eau de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 352; “Even if [Statius Müller, 1776] ...should some day be repudiated by ornithologists on account of his carelessness and his apparent colour-blindness, then the proper name of the species would be Aramides major (Boddaert), founded on Daubenton’s plate” (Sharpe 1894) (syn. Aramides cajanea).
● ex “Grand Corbeau” of Levaillant 1800, pl. 51 (unident.;?Corvus sp.).
● ex “Crotophagus major” of Brisson 1760, “Grand bout de Petun” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 102, fig. 1, “Ani des palétuviers” of Salerne 1767, and “Greater Ani” of Latham 1781 (Crotophaga).
● 54. PICUS.  ...  major.  10. P. albo nigroque varius, ano occipiteque rubro.  Picus albo nigroque varius, rectricibus tribus lateralibus utrinque albescentibus. Fn. svec. 81.  Picus varius major. Ges. av. 708. Aldr. ornith. l. 12. c. 32. Will. orn. 94. t. 21. Raj. av. 43. Alb. av. I. p. 19. t. 19. Frisch. av. . . t. 36. f. 1.  Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (Dendrocopos).
● ex “Grande Egrette d’Amérique” of d’Aubenton, 1765-1781, pl. 925 (syn. Egretta garzetta).
● ex “Scolopax media” of Frisch 1733-1763, “Great Snipe” of Pennant 1768, and Latham 1785 (syn. Gallinago media).
● ex “Grand Indicateur, mâle” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 241, fig. 1 (syn. Indicator indicator).
● ex “Pie-grièche Blanchot” of Levaillant 1810, pl. 285 (syn. Malaconotus blanchoti).
● ex “An other sort of Loggerhead” of Sloane 1707-1725, “Sitta” or “Picus cinereus major, rostro curvo” of Ray 1713, “Grand Sittelle à bec crochu” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Great Nuthatch” of Latham 1781 (?syn. Myiarchus validus).
● ex “Parus major” of Gessner 1555, Belon 1555, Aldrovandus 1599, and Willughby 1676, “Fringillago”, “Great Titmouse” or “Ox Eye” of Ray 1713, and Albin 1731, and “Parus capite nigro, temporibus albis, nucha luteis” of Linnaeus 1746 (Parus).
● ex “Grèbe de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 404, fig. 1, and “Grand Grèbe” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (Podiceps).
● ex “Barbican des côtes de Barbarie” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 602 (syn. Pogonornis dubius).
● ex “Grande Quiscale” of Vieillot 1819 (Quiscalus).
● ex “Tangara des grands bois de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 205 (syn. Saltator maximus).
● ex “Batara mayor” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 211 (Taraba).
● ex “Macucagua” of Marcgrave 1648, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, “Perdix brasiliensis” of Brisson 1760, and “Magoua” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (Tinamus).
● ex “Trepadore grande” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 241 (Xiphocolaptes).