366 



QUAIL. 



Class II. 



have multiplied considerably, particularly near 

 Orford and in the vicinity of the sea. Ed.] -. 



6. OuAiL. Perdix. Coturnix. P. mutica, 

 corpore griseo maculato, su- 

 perciliis albis, rectricibus 

 margine lunulaque ferrugi- 

 nea. Lath. Ind, orn. 651. 

 id. Syn. iv. 779- ^d. Sup. i. 

 222. 



La Callle. Belon. av. 263. 



Gesner av. 334. 



Coturnix Latinorum. Aklr. uv. 

 ii. 69. 



JJll. orn. 169. 



Rail Syn. av. 58. 



La Caille. Brisson uv. i. 247. 

 Hist. d'ms. ii. 449- PL Enl. 



170. , 



Ouaglia. Zinan. 36. 

 Tetrao Coturnix. Gm. Lin. 



760. 

 Wachtel. Faun. Suec. sp. 206. 

 Vagtel. Brunmdi, 202. 

 Wachtel. Kram. 357. Frisch, 



i. 117. 

 Perpelitza. ScopoU, No. I76. 

 Br. Zool. 87. late M. 6. 



Arcf. Zool. i. 374. 



Descrip- X HE length of the quail is seven inches and a 



TION. 



half; the breadth fourteen : the bill is oi a 

 dusky color ; the feathers of the head are black, 

 edged with rusty brown ; the crown of the head 

 divided by a whitish yellow line, beginning at 

 the bill and running along the hind part of the 

 neck to the back: above each eye is another 

 line of the same color ; the chin and throat are 

 of a dirty white ; the cheeks spotted with brown 

 and white ; the breast is of a pale yellowish red 

 spotted with black ; the scapular feathers and 

 those on the back are marked in their middles 



