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COMMON QUAJL. 
Syn, 4. 779* 2^.— Lath. Syn. Sup. p. 222.— Lath. Syn. Sup. 
II. p. 280. — Lexvin. Brit. Birds. 4. pi. 138. — Wale. Syn. 2. pi. 
\Q5.—Pult. Cat. Dors. p. J.—Moni. Orn. Diet. 2. — Mont. 
Orn. Diet. Supp.—Bexvick, Brit. Birds. 1. 308.— Anm, 
Biog. 2. 264. 
Var. 0. Corpore albido cut toto albo. 
With the body whitish, or entirely white. 
Coturnix dactylisonans, var. (a.) Temm. Gall. Ind. p. 742. 
This well known bird is considerably less than 
the common Partridge, measuring only seven inches 
and a half in length : its beak is dusky : irides 
yellow ; the crown of the head is black, transversely 
marked with rufous brown : down the middle is a 
yellowish white line, and above the eyes is another 
of the same, which passes behind them, and some 
way down the neck at the back part: the chin 
and throat are white, bounded by a black crescent, 
which is deepest in front : the hind part of the 
neck, the back, the scapulars, and tail-coverts, are 
rufous brown ; the middle of each feather streaked 
with yellowish white, surrounded more or less 
with black : sides the same, but with less white : 
breast pale ferruginous brown, the shafts of the 
feathers white : belly and under parts dirty yel- 
lowish white, mixed with lunulated black lines : 
thighs varied with chesnut : quills dusky, the outer 
webs more or less mottled with yellowish white : 
tail very short ; dusky, with white tips ; consisting 
of twelve feathers, which are almost hidden by the 
coverts. 
The female differs in having the chin bull- 
coloured, with a dusky mark passing from the ear 
downward : the breast is spotted with dusky, and 
