T E T 



tliroat, lower bread and abdomen black, white-guttated : 

 the Madagafcar quail of Latham. 



Grisel's. With black legs and bill ; body dilutely and 

 fordidly grey, black-banded : the grey-throated quail of 

 Latham. Found iu Madagafcar. 



CoRO.MANDELici's. Head black ; vertex and ocular 

 fafcia red and yellow ; throat white, furrounded with a 

 black ftria ; body ftriatcd ; quill-feathers brown : the Co- 

 romandel quail of Latham. 



Nov.'h; GuiNii/E. Brown ; greyifli legs ; black quill- 

 feathers, the covers of the wings obfoletely yellow : the 

 New Guinea quail of Latham. 



Manii.lensis. Above black ; legs and bill black ; 

 throat white ; bread grey, fpotted black ; abdomen yellow, 

 black-banded : the Manilla quail of Latham. 



Cristatup. The dependent cred and throat yellow : 

 this is the quauhtzonecolin of Ray and WiUughby, the 

 zone-colin of Buffon, the creded quail of Latham. Found 

 in Guiana and New Spain. 



Sinensis. Body fpotted grey ; throat black, with a 

 white bow : the coturnix philippenfis of Briflbn, and Chi- 

 nefe quail of Edwards and Latham. Found in China and 

 the Philippine ides. 



Coturnix. Body fpotted grey ; eye -brows white ; the 

 margin and lunule of the tail-feathers ferruginous : the quail 

 of Pennant and others. Of this there are two varieties, 

 the coturnix major of Briflbn, and the coturnix wholly 

 white. 



f. If^itfi three Toes. 



G1BRALTARICU.S, With pale legs ; black bill ; quill- 

 feathers and tail black : the Gibraltar quail of Latham. 



Andalusicus. Red, variegated with black; beneath 

 reddidi-white ; legs and bill flefh-coloured : the Andalufian 

 quail of Latham. 



NiGRicoLLis. Body above cinereous, vai-iegated with 

 red and black beneath ; legs and bill cinereous ; chin and 

 throat black ; quill-feathers brown : black-necked quail of 

 Latham. Found in Madagafcar. 



LuzoNNiENSis. Head, neck, and throat variegated with 

 white and black ; throat and bread bay ; abdomen yellow- 

 ifh ; legs and bill dilutely grey : the Luzouian quail of La- 

 tham. Found in the Manilla iflands. 



C. Wit/} the Area about the Eyes covered tuith Feathers, but 

 naked and tetradadyle ; TiNAMOu- 



GuiANENSis. With legs and bill brown ; back varie- 

 gated with cinereous brown and blackidi dreaks ; throat ci- 

 nereous ; abdomen palely orange and brown. This is the 

 partridge of Guiana of Bancroft and Latham. Found in 

 Cayenne and Guiana. 



Major. Legs yellowifh and brown ; bill black ; vertex 

 red; body ohvaceous ; fpots on the back and tail black. 

 This is the macucagua of Marcgrave, Ray, and Willughby, 

 the magona of Buffon, the tinamou of Cayenne, the great 

 tinamou of Latham. Found in South America, particu- 

 larly in the woods of Cayenne and Guiana. 



CiNEREUS. Cinereous-brown : the cinereous tinamou 

 of Latham. 



Variegatus. Legs and bill brown ; head and neck 

 black ; body above variegated with tranfverfe hnes, light red 

 and black ; beneath red ; throat and middle of the abdo- 

 men white : the variegated tinamou of Latham. Found in 

 Guiana. 



Sxrvi. Legs and bill yellow ; head and neck black ; 

 body above brown ; beneath red : the little tinamou of La- 

 iham. Found in Guiana. 



T E T 



TETRAODON, in Ichthyology. See Tetrodon. 



TETRAPETALOUS, in Botany, an epithet given to 

 the flowers that confid of four fingle petala, or leaves 

 placed around the pidil. 



Thefe M. Judieu cslh polypetalous flowers. 



Mr. Ray, who calls them tetrapetalous, makes them condi- 

 tiitc a didinft clafs, which he divides into, i. Such as have 

 an uniform tetrapetalous flower, and their feed-veflels a little 

 oblongifh, which he therefore calls Jdiquofe. 2. Such as 

 have their feed-veffels diorter, which therefore, for didinc- 

 tion fake, he calls capfulatee ^xiAJlUcuIofx. 3. Such as have 

 a feeming tetrapetalous flower, that is, a monopetalous one, 

 divided deeply into four partitions, which he particularizes 

 alfo as anomalous. 



TETRAPHARMACUM, T-Tpafap^iaKo», compounded 

 of r{\p:, Jour, and >fs'.p,uKxoi', drug, or remedy, in the general 

 denotes any remedy confiding of four ingredients. 



TETRAPHIS, in Botany, a name contrived by Hed- 

 \rig, to cxprefs the four points by which the fringe of this 

 mofs is peculiarly didinguidied. (See Fringe.) — Hedw. 

 Fund. v. 2. 87. t. 7. f. 32. Schreb. Gen. 758. Sm. Fl. 

 Brit. 1 1 79. Compend. 153. — Clafs and order, Crji/>/£)fa7n/a 

 Mufci. Nat. Ord. Mufci. 



Ed. Ch. Capfule oblong. Fringe fimple, of four pyra- 

 midal, ereft, unconnected teeth. 



1. T. pellucida. Tranfparent Four-toothed Mofs. Fl. 

 Brit. n. I. Compend. 163. Engl. Bot. t. 1020. Hedw. 

 Sp. Mufc. 45. t. 7. f. I. a—f. S'lbth. Oxon. 275. Turn- 

 Mufc. Hib. 13. (Mnium pellucidum ; Linn. Sp. PI. 1574. 

 M. ferpilli foliis tenuibus pellucidis ; Dill. Mufc. 232. t. 31. 

 f. 2.) — Capfule cylindrical. Leaves ovate, acute, fingle- 



ribbed Not rare in moid diady places, about the roots of 



trees, in various parts of Europe. It is annual, flowering 

 early in the fpring, and ripening fruit in May. The whole 

 mofs is of a bright tranfparent green. Root fibrous, 

 matted. Stems modly fimple, an inch high, clothed with 

 alternate, feffile, ovato-lanceolate, acute, entire, wavy, 

 fingle-ribbed leaves, and each terminated by a fohtary _y?oTOfr. 

 The mz[e Jlo-wers, far more abundant than the female, are 

 little, round, dalked, powdery heads, each enveloped in 

 three broad ovate leaves. The females, on a different dem, 

 are lefs elevated, and more minute, each with from four to 

 fix Jiyles, one of which only, as ufual, is prolific, and the 

 cylindrical, fmooth, nearly upright capfule becomes elevated 

 on a bright orange or crimfon dalk, an inch long. The 

 tawny 'veil is torn at the bafe. Lid conical, reddifli, thin, 

 not half fo long as the capfule. Fringe remarkable for its 

 four rigid, poliflied, acute, pyramidal teeth, of a fliining 

 brown, by which the genus was well charafterized, even 

 when theprefent was the only known fpccies. Hedwig ob- 

 ferved the flowers to be fometimes abortive, and replaced by 

 buds. In the early fpring he now and then met with Jla- 

 mens and pijlils in the fame flower. 



2. T. ovata. Ovate Four-toothed Mofs. Mohr Ind. 

 Crypt. 3. Sm. Compend. 163. Grimmia Browniana; 

 Engl. Bot. t. 1422. Bryum Brownianum ; Dickf. Crypt, 

 fafc. 4. 7. t. 10. f. 16. Orthotrichum Brownianum ; FL 

 Brit. 1269.) — Capfule ovate. Radical leaves ligulate, ob- 

 tufe, without a rib. — Gathered by Mr. R. Brown, by the 

 river fide at Rodin, near Edinburgh ; and by the late 

 Mr. WiUiam Brunton, on fand-done rocks at lord Grant- 

 ley's lakes, near Ripon, Yorkdiire. The habit of the 

 plant, and efpecially the ribbed veil, caufed us fird to refer 

 our imperfeft fpecimen to Orthotrichum, till Mr. Sowerby 

 thought he found the fringe to be that of a Grimmia. Mean- 

 while Mr. Funk, a German botanid, afcertained it to be 

 formcvl of four teeth onhy, conftituting a genuine Tetraphis, 



thus 



