276 Q^ U A I L. Class II. 



07. Quail. La Caille. Belon av. 263. Quaglia. Zinan. 36. 



Gef?ier a^. 334. Tetrao coturnix. Lin. fyj}. 

 Coturnix Latinorum. -^/^/'. ^ii;. 278. 



II. 69. Wachtel Faun. Suec.fp. 206. 



Wil. orn. 169. Vagtel. Brunnichy 202. 



Rati fyn. av. 58. Wachtel. Kram. 357. Frifch^ 

 La Caille. Brijfcn a^v. I. 247. I. 117. 



Hift. d'Oys, IL 449. Br. Zool. 87. plate M. 6. 



Perpelitza 5fo/o//, No. 176. 



Descrip. /T^'^HE length of the quail is feven inches and a 

 1 half; the breadth fourteen: the bill is of a 

 dufl^y color : the feathers of the head are black, 

 edged with rufty brown : the crown of the head 

 divided by a whitifh yellow line, beginning at the 

 bill and running along the hind part of the neck 

 to the back: above each eye is another line of the 

 fame color : the chin and throat of a dirty white : 

 the cheeks fpotted with brown and white : the 

 breafl is of a pale yellowifh red fpotted with 

 black : the fcapular feathers and thofe on the back 

 are marked in their middles with a long pale yel- 

 low line, and on their fides with ferruginous and 

 black bars : the coverts of the wings are reddifh 

 brown, elegantly barred with paler lines bounded 

 on each fide with black. The exterior fide of the 

 firft quil feathers is white, of the others dulky 

 fpotted with red : the tail confifts of twelve Ihort 

 feathers barred with black and very pale brown- 

 iih red ; the legs are of a pale hue. 



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