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CALIFORNIAN COLIN. 
bright reddish brown, sprinkled with black and a 
little white : the whole of the under parts, and the 
lower tail-coverts, have on each feather three pure 
white spots on either web ; these spots are bounded 
by black, and the middle of the feathers are fine 
red-chesnut : the quills and the secondaries are 
brown : the feathers of the tail are deep brown, 
with innumerable waves of black : the beak is 
black, and the feet yellowish. The female is smaller, 
has not the crest, and the colours are less brilliant. 
This inhabits the central parts of America and 
Guiana, frequenting the vicinity of woods : the 
female lays twice in the year ; the young secrete 
themselves among the thick herbage, and when 
startled fly but a few feet from the ground. 
CALIFORNIAN COLIN. 
(Ortyx Californica.) 
Or. plumbea, crista verticnli erectd, guld nigra, alho cincid, ab- 
domine testaceo lunulis nigris. 
Lead-coloured Colin, with an erect vertical crest; the throat 
black, bounded with white; the abdomen testaceous, with 
black lunules. 
Perdix Californica. Lath, Ind. Orn. Sup. Ixii. 2. — Temm. Gall. 
Ind. 738. 
Tetrao Californicus. Shaw. Nat. Misc.pl. 345. 
Californian Quail. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. p. 281. 7- 
