Ckfs II. Q^ U A I L. 203 



The nature of this bird is fo well known, that it: 

 ■will be unnecefTary to detain the readers with any ac- 

 count of it : all writers agree, that its pafTion for 

 v.enery exceeds that of any bird of the genus ; fhould 

 tl>e r.eaders curiofity be excited to fee a more particu- 

 lar account, we beg leave to refer them to thofe au- 

 thors who have recorded this part of its natural 

 hiftory *. 



VI. The Ct U A I L. 



La Caille. Belon a-v. zSt,. Quaglia. 7Jnan ^S. 



Gefner a'v . -^l^. Tetrao coturnix. Lin, f^JI. 2"]^. 



Coturnix Latinorum. Aldr. a.'V' Wachtel. Faun. Suec. Jp. zob^ 



ii. 69. Vagtel. Brunnich 202. 



Wil. orn. 169. Wachtel. Kram. 357, 



5a« fyn. a^v. 58. Br. Zool. Sj. plate M 6. 

 La Caille. Briton a-v. i. 247- 



TH E length of the Qiiail is feven inches and a j^efcr. 

 half; the breadth fourteen : the bill is of a 

 iufky color : the feathers of the head are black, 

 edged with rufty brown : the crown of the head is ' 

 divided by a whitifli 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 are of a dirty white : the 

 cheeks fpotted with brown and white : the breafl: is 

 of a pale yellowiih red fpotted with black : the fca- 

 pular feathers and thofe on the back are marked in 

 their middles with a long pale yellow line, and on 

 their fides with ferruginous and black bars: the 



* P/itiy lib. 10. C. 2». TF--' ^rtt. 168. Edw. preface to Gleanings^. 

 £ar/ 2. 



coverts 



