Named for Perdix perdix, or partridge. {It belongs to the family of the Phasianidae. It is on the Dutch Red List of birds endangered in the Netherlands and also on the ‘List of Vulnerable Birds in Europe’.} (M 33793; M 34089) _ _.
Discovered on 24-9-1960 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.