PARTRIDGE. -337 



Inhabits Gibraltar. But the Quail, which appears to be the 

 same, has been thus described to me by Mr. White. 



Length the same. Bill pale ; irides white, or light pearl-colour; 

 front, cheeks, and throat, pale brown, elegantly mottled with black; 

 crown of the head black, with a small mixture of orange ; back part 

 of the neck orange, with a small mixture of black ; from the throat 

 to the breast a broad perpendicular streak of bright orange ; the 

 back very dark brown, clouded with orange ; tail the same, com- 

 posed of very soft feathers, and running to a point in the middle ; 

 quills and secondaries plain dusky brown ; the coverts black, with 

 much light brown, and orange mixed; legs flesh-colour; toes strong, 

 and scaly, as in the domestic Fowls, the middle claw sharp-edged, 

 on the interior side. 



This, according to Mr. White, is in no small plenty in all the 

 environs of the Garrison of Gibraltar, but not upon any part of the 

 Hill or Rock. Its first appearance is at the same time with the 

 Common Quail ; and it continues throughout the winter and spring; 

 about breeding time it disappears for the summer; yet there is no 

 reason to suppose that it quits the country for that time ; but rather 

 that it resorts with its congeners into the upland tracts for the season. 

 It is known to the English sportmen, by the name of Trail, or 

 Terrail. It runs with wonderful agility, and none but the most 

 staunch, and excellent dogs, are able to flush it. The Spaniards 

 often bring it to market, but so ignorant of its true history, that they 

 suppose it to be the young of the Common Quail, from its being a 

 much smaller bird. 



78.-ANDALUSIAN QUAIL— Pl. cxxxii. 



Perdix Andalusica, Ind. Om.'ii. 656. 



Tetrao Andalusicus, Gm. Lin. i. 766. 



Hemipodius tacbyd.romus, Tern. Man. 314. Id. Ed. ii. 495. Id. Pig. Sf Gall. Hi. 626. 



Andalusian Quail, Gen. Syn. iv. 791— plate in frontispiece. 



IN this the bill and legs are flesh-colour ; general colour of the 

 plumage above rufous, irregularly marked with black; sides of the 



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