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pale cinereous brown, which comes forwards on the breast on each 

 side, as abroad band, where it inclines to bluish ash-colour; the 

 lower part of the neck behind speckled with dull cream-colour ; from 

 the crown springs a tuft of six long, dusky feathers, which admit of 

 being carried erect; forehead dull ferruginous; behind this, about 

 the eyes, the chin, and throat, dusky black ; behind the eye a dirty 

 cream-coloured streak, and a crescent of the same, bounding the 

 black of the throat all round the lower part ; the belly from the breast 

 dirty ferruginous yellow, marked with slender crescents of black ; 

 over the thighs, beneath the wings, some long dusky feathers, marked 

 with a yellow streak down the middle of each ; tail rather long, and 

 somewhat cuneiform ; legs short, and lead-coloured. 



The female differs from the male, chiefly in wanting the black 

 about the head, the crest being smaller, and the colours in general 

 less distinct. 



Inhabits California, from whence it was brought by Mr. Menzies, 

 now in the British Museum. 



71 —CRESTED QUAIL. 



Perdix cristata, Ind. Orn. ii. 652. 



Tetrao cristatus, Lin. i. 277. Gm. Lin. i. 765. 



Coturnix Mexicana cristata, Bris. i. 260. t. 25. 2. Id. 8vo. i. 72. Gerin. iii. pi. 246. 



Coturnix Indica, Quauht Zonecolin, Rati, J58. Will. 304, Id. Engl. 393. 



Zonecolin, Buf. ii. 485. Id. Sonnin. vii. 118. Tab. Enc. Orn. 222. pi. 96. f. 4. Tern. 



Pig. Sf Gall. Svo. iii. 446. 

 Caille huppee du Mexiqne, PI. enl. 126. 1. 

 Crested Quail, Gen. Syn. iv. 784. 



SIZE of our Quail. Bill stout, and brown ; on the head a 



narrow crest, an inch in length ; this crest, the crown of the head, 



and chin, are fulvous; cheeks, neck, back and rump, and from the 



belly to the vent variegated with rufous, brown, black, and dirty 

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