PARTRIDGE. 327 



is only Brisson's figure reversed, and put into colour. As to the red 

 bill, it is not of sufficient moment to separate them into two, and I 

 am greatly of opinion that it is a first year's bird of the Maryland 

 Partridge. 



67— LESSER MEXICAN QUAIL. 



Perdix Coyolcos, Ind. Orn. i. 653. 



Tetrao Cc>3 r olcos, Gm. Lin. i. 763. 



Coturnix Mexicana, Bris. i. 256. Id. 8vo. i. 71. 



Coyolcozque, seu Coli sonalis, Rait, 158. Will. 304. Id. Engl. 393. Buf. ii. 486. 



Lesser Mexican Quail, Gen. Syn. iv. 786. 



SIZE of the last. Eyes black ; top of the head and neck black 

 and white, forming bands on each side of the neck to the eyes ; the 

 rest of the body fulvous above, varied with white ; beneath wholly 

 fulvous ; legs yellow. 



Inhabits Mexico, and found chiefly in the meadows; has the same 

 note and manner of living, as the other Quails of Mexico. M. Tem- 

 minck thinks this to be the same as the two last described. 



Another Quail of Mexico is also mentioned by Fernandez, called 

 Cocolin, but of this no description of plumage is given. 



68— MALOUINE QUAIL. 



Perdix Falklandica, Ind. Orn. ii. 652. 

 Tetrao Falklandicus, Gm. Lin. i. 762. 

 La Caille des Isles Malouines, Buf. ii. 477. Id. Sonnin. vii. p.- 102. PI. enl. 111. 



Enc. Orn. 220. pi. 97. f. 1. 

 Malouine Quail, Gen. Syn. iv. 786. 



SIZE and length of the Common Quail. Bill stout, lead- 

 coloured ; the upper part of the plumage pale brown, the middle 

 of the feathers dark brown, and towards the ends of each two or 

 three curved lines of the same; sides of the head mottled with white; 



