P SAR 1 Rh DRG: 
ENGTH feven inches and a half: bill blue black: general co- 
lour of the plumage mottled chefnut, marked with zigzags of 
black, and dots of the fame, with a line of white down each fhaft, as 
in the Quai]: the under parts of the body buff, with black zigzags 
as above: the chin pale and plain; down the middle of the crown a 
ftreak : legs brown. 
Inhabits New Holland. 
Perdix Cafpia, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 655. 43. 
Tetrao Cafpius, Gmel. Lin. p. 762.—Gmel. reife, iv. §.67.t. 10. 
IZE of a Common Goofe: bill olive -brown :, noltrils, eyelids, and 
orbits, bare and yellow; eyes black: legs yellow, not feathered, 
nor furnifhed with fpurs: general colour, of; the plumage cinereous 
grey, fpotted with brown: ends of the quills, and part of the tail 
white. rt 
{nhabits Ghilan, in Perfia. 
* * WiTH THREE TOES ONLY. 
TZE of our Qyuail, or at leaft between that and the Partridge: 
the bill is horn colour: plumage on the upper parts of the body 
fomewhat like our Partridge, marked with large triangular fpots of 
black, which arifes from the middle of each feather being of that 
colour: the forehead, and. round the eyes, {potted with fmall dots of 
white: fore parts of the neck and breaft pale afh colour: on the ears 
a blueifh fpot; from thence on each fide of the neck, pale dufky red 
or ferruginous: belly, thighs, and vent, dull white: quills black: the 
legs pale yellow, furnifhed with only three toes, all placed forwards: 
Inhabits New South Wales; met with in Fuly: faid to have the 
habits of our European Quail. 
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NEW 
HOLLAND 
QUAIL, 
Description. 
PLAceE. 
II. 
CASPIAN 
iE 
DESCRIPTION. 
Place. 
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HOLLAND 
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DEscRIpTion. 
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