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SONNINl's COLIN. 
(Ortyx Sonninii.) 
Or. cristata, guUure castaneo, corpore supra, cauda pectoreque 
rubescente-cinereis maculis nigris conspersis, suhtus castanea, 
macuUs albis nigro^circumdatis. (Femina capite IcEvi, colore 
dilutiore . ) 
Crested Coliiij with the throat chesnut ; the body above, the 
tail, and the breast, reddish grey, sprinkled with black spots ; 
beneath chesnut, with white spots, which are edged by black. 
{Female with the head smooth, and the colours of the body 
paler. ) 
Perdix Sonninii. Temm. Gall. Ind.p. 737. 
Colin Sonnini. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3 . p. 451. 
Le CaiUe de Cayenne. Sonn. Buff. 7. 133. 
This species was confounded with the former 
till separated in Sonnini s edition of Bulfon, where 
it is described : it is rather more than seven inches 
in length : four or live narrow elongated feathers 
are situated on the top of the head, between the 
eyes, and form a crest ; these are yellow, tinged 
with brown in the centre : the forehead is yel- 
lowish, as is the part surrounding the base of both 
mandibles of the beak : the throat, and a broad 
band behind the eyes, are of a deep red : the 
feathers of the nape and the sides of the neck are 
spotted with white, black, and chesnut : the top 
of the back is grey-red, waved with black : the 
rest of the upper parts is grey-red, spotted with 
black, and uiuhdated with brown : the breast is 
