COMMON QUAIL. 
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they have no spurs. They reside on the ground : 
their food consists of grains, seeds, and various 
kinds of insects : the females deposit their eggs in 
hollows on the ground, with scarcely any ap- 
pearance of a nest. They are distributed over the 
Old Continent, but are not found in the New. 
COMMON QUAIL. 
(Coturnix Dactylisonans. ) 
Co. corpore griseo-Jerrugineo maculis nigris variof rachi pen<> 
narum jlaxiicante^ superciliis taniaque longitudinali in vertice, 
alhis, guld rufa, nigfo cincta. (Femina dilutiovy guld alba.') 
Quail with the body rusty-grey, varied with black spots j the 
shafts of the feathers yellowish 5 the eyebrows and a longi- 
tudinal stripe on the crown white ; the throat rufous, bounded 
by black. ( Female paler, with the throat white.) 
Coturnix dactylisonans. Temm. Gall. Ind, p. 740. 
Coturnix. Briss. Orn. 1. 247. 14. 
Coturnix major. Briss. Orn. 1. 251.? 
Perdix Coturnix. Lath. Ind. Orii. 2. 651. 28. — Nilss. Orn, Suec. 
1. 316. — Leach. Cat. Brit. Mtos.p. 2 ,y. 
Tetrao Coturnix. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 278. 20. — Linn. Faun. 
Suec. No. 206. — Gmel, Syst, Nat. 1 . 765 . — Raii. Syn. 58. a . 
6. — Will. p. 121./. 29. 
La Caille. Buff. Ois. 2. 449 « pi- 16 .— Buff. PI. Erd. 170. — 
Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. p. 478. — Temm. Man. d' Orni. p. 311. 
Le Crokicl, ou Caille dePologne. Buff. Ois. 2. 251. ? 
The Quail. Penyi. Brit. Zool. 1. 97. — Penn, Arct. Zool. 2. 320. 
c. — Albin. Birds, \. pi. 30. — Will, Ang. p, l69- — Lath, Gen. 
