400 



RASORES. 



TETRAONID^E. 



TETRAON1DJE. 



Perdix coturnix, 

 Tetrao 



w 



Coturnix vulgaris, 

 Perdix coturnix. 



THE COMMON QUAIL. 



Coturnix vulgaris. 



TJie Quail, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 366. 



Common 



Coturnix dactylisonans, . 

 Perdix cotumix, La caille, 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 

 BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 361. 

 FLEM. Brit. An. p. 45. 

 SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 437. 

 JENYNS, Brit. Vert, p 174. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xiii. 

 TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 491. 



COTURNIX. Generic Characters. Beak strong, shorter than the head, upper 

 mandible curved. Nostrils basal, lateral, half closed by an arched membrane. 

 Feet with four toes, those anterior connected by a membrane as far as the first 

 articulation. Tail short, rounded, recumbent, almost hid by the tail coverts. 



OUR British Quail belongs to that section of the- genus 

 Coturnix designated by Colonel Sykes* as having the upper 



* Transactions of the Zoological Society, vol. ii. page 1. 



