330 O F B I R D S. 



the quail-fpecies, reputed their leader and guide in their migra- 

 tory expeditions. It meafures between the tips of the wings ex- 

 tended nineteen inches. The beak is more, of a livid grey co- 

 lour, and furrowed on each fide towards the bafe. The head is 

 fmall ; the eyes are large, the iris is reddifh, and the pupil black. 

 The plumage of the head, neck, and back, are of a bright 

 brown, elegantly fpotted with black. The wings are of a yel- 

 lowifh-red. The throat and breaft are grey. The belly is va- 

 riegated with a dark brown and white ; the upper part of the 

 thighs brown, with tranfvcrfe lines of white, undulating, or 

 wavy ; the lower part naked ; the legs pretty long, and of a livid 

 colour. It is known by its note of Crex, Crex, or Crake, Crake, in 

 loud and inceffant repetitions. In Italy, it is called, // redelle 

 <3>uatie, The king of quails *. The quail is fourteen inches be- 

 tween the tips of the wings extended. The rail and it, on the 

 approach of winter, leave us for a milder climate. The latter 

 make the greateft part of the revenue of the bifhopric of the 



ifland Caprxa, near Naples f. 



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30. The Mountain-Finch, or Brambling (h), a beautiful bird, is 

 one of our vilitants in winter. It is of the fize of the fky-lark. 

 The beak is half an inch long, robuft, yellow, and black at the 

 point ; the head pretty large and round ; the crown a glofly yel- 

 lowifli-red ; the reft of the head, neck, and upper part of 

 the back, a beautiful glofly black, with a changeable caft 

 of purple, elegantly edged with a mining yellowim-red j the 



* .Ray's Ornithol. p. 171. f His Topogr. Obferv. vol. i. p. 231. 



(I) Fringilla montana f. Montifringilla. Will. Orn. p. 187. t. 45. f. 5. Fringilla 

 montana. Raj. Av. p. 88. Fringtlla alarum bafi fubtus flavifiima. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 75. 

 n. 198. Montifringilla. THE BRAMBLE, BRAMBLING, or BRIER-FINCH ; utpote ruin 

 fepe infidens, eorumque fruftibus viditans. Cbarlet. Av. p. 88. n. 4. 



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