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also a few of the same on the front of the neck ; the breast and sides, 

 almost to the thighs, marked with roundish spots of white, each half 

 surrounded on the under part with a black crescent ; lower belly and 

 thighs rufous brown ; vent almost white ; legs very pale rufous brown. 

 One supposed a female, is rufous brown, paler beneath, but 

 not inclining to white on the head and chin ; the breast marked with 

 pale spots, with a dusky crescent at the bottom of each, but much 

 less conspicuous than in the other sex. 

 Supposed to inhabit New-Holland. 



90— SPOTTED-NECKED QUAIL. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill dusky; head above brown black, 

 mixed and barred dusky black and ferruginous, many of the feathers 

 with a pale streak on the outer web, in this approaching to those 

 parts in the Common Quail ; wing coverts mixed as the back, but 

 rather in spots than bars ; quills plain brown ; tail the same, but 

 short, and exceeded somewhat by its coverts, which are barred fer- 

 ruginous and black ; chin dusky white ; throat and breast dusky, 

 near the end of each feather a clay-coloured spot ; sides under the 

 wings mixed ferruginous; belly and vent dirty buff; legs yellow, 

 with only three toes on each foot, placed forwards. 



Inhabits Africa. — In the collection of Mr. Bullock. 



91.— HOTTENTOT QUAIL. 



Hemipodius Hottentottus, Turnix Hottentot, Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. Svo. v. iii. 636. 



SIZE of a Lark ; length five inches. Bill slender, brown ; 

 eyelids above red ; plumage in general pale rufous, with whitish, 

 rufous, and black spots ; crown of the head black, the feathers edged 

 with rufous, with a slender line of the same down the middle ; throat 



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