CALIFORNIAN COLIN. 
385 
This bird, which is deposited in the British 
Museum, is thus described by Latham : “ This is 
rather larger than our Quail : the beak is lead- 
coloured : the general colour of the plumage on 
the upper parts of the body, wings, and tail, is 
pale cinereous brown ; this colour comes forward 
on the breast on each side in a broad band, where 
it inclines to bluish ash-colour : the back part of 
the neck speckled with dull cream-colour : from 
the crown springs a tuft, composed of six long 
dusky feathers, which are capable of being carried 
erect : the forehead is dull ferruginous ; behind 
this, about the eyes, the chin, and throat, dusky' 
black : behind the eye is a dirty cream-coloured 
streak, and a crescent of the same bounds the black 
of the throat all round the lower part : the belly, 
from the breast, is dirty ferruginous yellow, marked 
with slender crescents of black : over the thighs, 
beneath the wings, some long dusky feathers, 
marked with a yellow streak down the middle of 
each : the tail is rather long, and somewhat cunei- 
form in shape : the legs short, and of a lead- 
colour. The female differs chiefly in wanting 
black on the head, and having the colours in general 
less distinct. Inhabits California, whence it was 
brought by Mr, Menzies.” 
V. XL P. II. 
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