330 PARTRIDGE. 



yellowish white; inclining most to black on the cheeks and neck, 

 and to rufous on the breast and belly; quills brown ; tail variegated 

 brown and grey; legs brown. 



Inhabits Guiana and Mexico. A very good figure of this is 

 given in the PI. enlum. copied from Brisson ; but not quoted by 

 Buflfon ; though from the name given to it, it is probably the same ; 

 yet he does not refer to the same bird in Brisson, but to another, 

 which answers neither to our, nor his description, which he says is 

 crested, and the plumage obscure in colour.* 



The Crested Quail is thought, by the Annotator on M. Azara, to 

 be the same bird as his Ynambu-gnazu, our Great Tinamou, but 

 this does not seem manifest, as the latter is furnished with tail feathers, 

 and those sufficiently conspicuous ; neither is the bill at all like that 

 of a Tinamou, but of a Quail : besides, the crest is an inch long, 

 whereas it is only said that Azara's bird erects the feathers of the 

 head as a crest, not that any of the feathers are elongated. Also, 

 the Ynambu-guazu is sixteen inches and a half long, which is more 

 than double the length of the Crested Quail. 



72.— HUDSONIAN QUAIL. 



Perdix Hudsonica, Ind. Orn. ii. G55. 

 Hudsonian Quail, Ind. Orn. Sup. 224. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill pale brown; plumage in general 

 pale brownish cream-colour, marked on the back of the neck, and 

 over the thighs with irregular spots of white; back, wings, and tail, 

 crossed sparingly with lines of white, bounded on their lower part 

 with black; under parts of the body paler than above, and unspotted; 

 legs dusky brown. 



Inhabits Hudson's Bay, from whence I received it. A specimen 

 was also in the Leverian Museum, very little differing. 



* See Hernand. Av. cap. xxx. and Bris. i. 257. 



