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CHESTED COLIN. 
(Ortyx Temminkii.) 
Or. cristata corpore subtus, alho nigro rufoque maculato, medio 
ventre riifo, fronte guttureque albescenie-rufo^ collo nigro ma- 
culato. (Femina mutica ; corpore supra nigro maculato, sub- 
tus nigro alboquejasciato.) 
Crested Colin, with the body beneath spotted with white, black, 
and rufous the middle of the belly rufous ; the forehead and 
the throat whitish red j the neck spotted with black. Fe- 
male without crest ; the body above spotted with black, be- 
neath fasciated with black and white. 
Perdix cristata. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 652. 30. — Temm. Gall. Ind. 
p. 736. 
Tetrao cristatus. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 277* 18. — Gmel. Syst. 
Nat. 1. 765. 18. 
Coturnix Mexicana cristata. Briss. Orn. 1. 260. 21. pi. 7,5. J". 2. 
Cotumix Indica, Quanhtzonecolin. Raii. Syn.p. 158. 
Le Zonecolin. Buff. Ois. 2. 485. 
La Caille huppee du Mexique. Buff. PI. Enl. Il6.y^ 1. male. 
Colin zonecolin. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. 446. 
Crested Quail. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 784. 26 . 
The male of this species is adorned with an 
elongated narrow crest, of a fulvous colour : he is 
in length seven inches : the beak is brown : the 
forehead, the eyebrows, and the throat, are white, 
slightly tinged with yellowish ; and on the lower 
part of the throat with reddish, and all the feathers 
edged with black : the feathers of the head and 
occiput are black, edged with white and bright 
red ; those of the nape and the sides of the neck 
are white, with a black s])ot towards their tip: the 
