224 A HANDBOOK OF EUROPEAN BIRDS. 
Genus PERDIX. - 
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Perdix cinerea Za‘/. 
Adult Male: Head and upper part of throat pale chestnut, 
shaded on crown and nape with brown, and streaked with buff; 
general colour above browntsh-grey, vermuiculated with black, and 
barred with buff and chestnut; wing-coverts and scapular- 
feathers with a distinct pale yellow median stripe; centre tail- 
feathers coloured like the back, the remaining ones chestnut ; 
beneath grey, shading into white on.the abdomen, and on 
breast and flanks closely and finely vermiculated with black ; 
abdomen with two very broad, deep chocolate marks, confluent on 
the upper half; some of flank-feathers blotched with chestnut 
at the tips ; bill, legs and feet pale grey ; irides hazel. Length 
Z2 > imehness culmen 0755 wine 6°55 Mall ac3 tansis mG: 
Adult Female: Closely resembles the’male but is some- 
what smaller ; the upper parts are darker, and more marked with 
brown and buff; the chestnut on the head is paler, and the 
patches on the abdomen much smaller than in the male. 
Young in first plumage: Lack the chestnut on head 
and threat, also the abdominal patches ; the general colour 
much browner than adults. 
Distribution : Inhabits Central Europe, the British Isles, 
Denmark and Germany, being found eastward as far as West- 
ern Siberia in the north and Persia in the south. 
Habitat: Open cultivated country. 
QUAIL. vs 
Coturnix communis JSonnat. 
Genus COTURNIX. 
Adult Male: Crown and nape very dark brown, marked 
with reddish-buff, and with a central and two lateral lines of 
buff; dack, scapulars, some of wing-coverts, and rump “ght 
brown, marked with black and dark brown, and streaked with 
