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MALOUINE COLIN, 
(Ortyx Falklandica.) 
Or. mutica, corpore supra Jiiscescente, jicgulo Jlavescente lumdis 
Jiiscis, pectore imo abdomineque albis. 
Crestless Colin, with the body above brownish ; the juguluni 
yellowish, with brown lunules j the lower part of the breast 
and the abdomen white. 
Perdix Falklandica. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 653. 32. — Temm. Gall. 
Ind. p. 738. 
Tetrao Falklandicus. Gmel. Spst. Nat. 1. 762. 4Q. 
La Caille des Isles Malouines. Ois. 2. 477- — Buff. PI. 
Enl. 222. 
Malouine Quail. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 786. 28. 
This rare sjiecies is a native of the Falkland 
Isles : it is about equal to the common Quail in 
size and length : its beak is lead-colour : the upper 
parts of the plumage are pale brown ; the middle 
of the feather darker, and with two or three lunu- 
lated lines of the same towards the tip : quills 
dusky, edged with paler : sides of the head varied 
with white : chin, fore-part of the neck, and 
breast, brownish yellow, marked with spots and 
curved lines of brown, but paler than the upper 
parts : lower part of the breast, the belly, the 
thighs, and the vent, are white : the tail brown, 
barred with paler: the legs brown. 
