£24 ' PARTRIDGE, 



36. c. Lev. Muf. 



+. HUDSONIAN 



QUAIL. 'TpHIS is the fmallefl: of its race, meafuring in length only five 

 Description.. inches. The bill dulky brown : general colour of the plu- 



mage a pale brownifli cream-colourj marked at the back part of 

 the neck and over the thighs with irregular fpots of white : the 

 wings, back, and tail, crofled fparingly with lines of white, 

 bounded on their lower part with black : the under parts of the 

 body are paler than the upper, and unfpotted: legs dufky 

 brown. 

 Plaoe, I received a fpecimen of this from HudJorCs Bay ; from which 



place, I am informed, that in the Leverian Mufeum alfo came. 



Genus 



