Perdix (mythology)

While walking on the seashore, he picked up the spine of a fish or a serpent's jaw.

Daedalus was so envious of his nephew's accomplishments that he took an opportunity, when they were together one day on the top of a high tower, to push him off, but Athena, who favors ingenuity, saw him falling and arrested his fate by changing him into a bird called after his name, the perdix (partridge).

This bird does not build its nest in the trees, nor take lofty flights, but nestles in the hedges, and mindful of his fall, avoids high places.

[3] In some accounts, Athena leaves Daedalus with a scar in the shape of a partridge, to remind him of what he did.

[citation needed] Perdix is mentioned in book VIII (236-59) of Ovid's Metamorphoses.