PLATE CXXVIIL 



PERDIX COTURNIX. 

 COMMON QUAIL, 



Gallin^e. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill convex and ftrong : noftiils with a prominent margin : orbits 

 papillous : legs naked, and moftly armed with a fpur. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND ' 



SYNONYMS. 



Legs unarmed : body grey, fpotted : eye-brows white: tail feather 

 with ferruginous edge and crefcent. 



Perdix Coturnix : mutica, corpore grifeo maculato, faperciliis 

 albis, re£lricibus margine lunulaque ferruginea. 

 Lath, Ind. Orn^ /. 2./. 65 1. n. .^8. 



Tetrao Coturnix. Linn, Syji, l. p, ^78, 2Q,-^Fn, Suec. 

 No, ^OG.— Gmel. Syji, 1. p. 765. 



Quaglia. Zlnnan, Uov, p, 36, t, 5,f, Id, 



Wachtel. Guntb, Nejl, u, Ey, /. SB, 



La Caille. Buff, 2, p, 449. /. 16.— P/, enJ, 170. 



Quail. ArSi, ZooL2,p, S2Q. B, 

 Alhln, 1 . /. SO. 

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