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The ^a'll. Coturnix. 

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ITS Length from the tip of the Bill to the end of the Tail is 7 Inches and a half j 

 the Breadth when the Wings are extended, 14 Inches and a quarter; it commonly 

 weighs, when fat and flefhy, 3 Ounces and 14 Drams. / 



Its Bill from the tip to the corners of the Mouth is half an Inch long ; its Figure 

 more depreffed and plain than in the reft of this Kind ; the lower Chap black, the upper 

 of a pale dufky : The Irides of the Eyes are of a hazel Colour ; the Eyes have a nidating 

 Membrane. 



The Breaft and Belly are of a dirty pale yellow; the Throat hath a little Mixture of 

 red ; under the lower Chap of the Bill is a long and broad Stroak of black tending down- 

 wards ; above the Eyes and along the Middle of the Head are whitifh Stroaks or Lines ; 

 the Head has a Mixture of black, red and cinereous Colours in it ; the middle Part of 

 each covert Feather of the Back and lower Part of the Neck is marked with a pale yel- 

 lowifh Stroak, the reft of the Feathers being party-colour'd of black and redifli afti-colour ; 

 under the Wings is a Bed of white terminated on each Side with a Border of red mingled 

 with black. 



The Beam or quill Fcathcrc of thp Winge are. dnfky, crofled wirb pale Lines ; the 



leffer Rows of hard Feathers in the Wings wholly of one and the fame redifh Colour ; 

 the Tail is fliort, not above an Inch and a half long, confifting of 1 2 Feathers of ablack- 

 ifti Colour interrupted with pale red tranfverfe Lines. 



The Feet are of a pale flefti-colour covered with a Skin divided rather into Scales than, 

 intire Rings ; the Soles of the Feet yellow ; the outer Toes, as far as the firft' Joint, sre 

 connefted with the middlemoft by an intervening Membrane. 



It hath a Gall-bladder ; the Cock hath large Tefticles for the Bignefs of the Body, 

 whence it may be thought to be a falacious Bird; it hath a mufculous Stomach or Giz- 

 zard, and juft above the Stomach the Gullet is dilated into a Bag, which is called the 

 Anti-ftomachj the interior Superficies whereof is granulated with papillary Glandules. 



For catching of Quails they ufe this Art : The Fov/ler betimes in the Morning having 

 Spread his Net hides himfelf in the Corn and then calls with his Quail-pipe ; the Cock- 

 Quail thinking it to be the Note of the Hen, comes direftly to the Call of the Pipe, 

 and when under the Net, the Fowler fliews himfelf, at which the Bird endeavours to fly 

 and is entangled in the Net and taken. They are Birds of Paffage and impatient of 

 Cold. 



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