296 aU AL a as. Crass II. 
97- Quart. La Caille. Belon av. 263. Quaglia. Zinan. 36. 
Gefner av. 334. Tetrao coturnix. Liz. fpf. 
Coturnix Latinorum. 4/dr. av. 278. 
pe. Le G9. Wachtel. Faun. Suec. /p. 206. 
Wil. orn. 169. Vagtel. Brunnich, 202. 
Raii fyx. av. 58. Wachtel. Kram. 357. Frifch, 
La Caille. Briffon av. I. 247. Cee e 
Hift. a’Oys. Il. 449. Br. Zool. 87. plate M. 6. 
Perpelitza Scopoli, No. 176. 
Descrip. HE length of the quail is feven inches and a 
half; the breadth fourteen: the bill is of a 
dufky color: the feathers of the head are black, 
edged with rufty brown: the crown of the head 
divided by a whitifh yellow line, beginning at the 
bill and running along the hind part of the neck 
to the back: above each eye is another line of the 
fame color: the chin and throat of a dirty white: 
the cheeks fpotted with brown and white: the 
breaft is of a pale yellowifh red fpotted with 
biack: the fcapular feathers and thofe on the back 
are marked in their middles with a long pale yel- 
low line, and on their fides with ferruginous and 
black bars: the coverts of the wings are reddifh 
brown, elegantly barred with paler lines bounded 
on each fide with black. The exterior fide of the 
firft quil feathers is white, of the others dufky 
fpotted with red: the tail confifts of twelve fhort 
feathers barred with black and very pale brown- 
ifh red: the legs are of a pale hue. 
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