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PARTRIDGE, 



24. 



4- COMMON 



QUAIL. 



Var.B. 

 Description, 



Common Quail, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 779. N" 24. 



Tetrao coturnix, Sepp Fog. pi. in p. 143 — Faun, Arag. p. S^.^Hafel^. Fo)\, 

 £»g, ed. p. 203. N° 44. 



LcHj. Muf. 



TN the Leverian Mufeum is a variety. The crown of the head 

 brown : over the eyes, and round them to the hind head, white, 

 dotted with black : the reft of the neck pale rufous yellow, daftied 

 with white down the fhafts : the lower part of the neck, all round 

 the back, between the wings, the breaft, belly, and outer edge of 

 the wing, white : wing coverts and fcapulars yellow brown, barred 

 with dark brown, and each feather dallied with yellow down the 

 fliaft : quills yellow brown : tail mottled brown, towards the end 

 chefnut, the tips very pale and mottled, the two outer feathers 

 white : legs yellow. 



36. a. 

 CHITTY- 

 GONG P. 



Description. 



CIZE of a Pheafant: length feventeen inches. Bill pale alh- 

 colour : a broad oval fpace round the eyes, naked, and of a 

 pink-colour, beginning at the noftrils, and ending in a point be« 

 hind ; noftrils placed in a kind of cere : the head and neck white, 

 marked with black lines : on the ear a brown patch : back and 

 wings moft beautifully marked with bars and lines of black and 

 pale brown, and edged and tipped with white : breaft black, 

 marked with femilunar lines of white : belly pale reddifti brown, 

 edged with white, and marked irregularly in the middle with 

 dulky : tail mottled white and pale brown, crofled with bars 

 or zigzag lines of black and white : legs the colour of the bill, 

 and not furnilhed with a fpur behind, 



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