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ORNITHOLOGY. 



3. G-ENUS COTURNIX, MochrinQ, Genera Avium, p. 54 (1752). 

 1. CoTURNix cOxMMUNis, Bonuaterre. — The Quail- 



Coturnix communis, BoNN. Ency. Meth. p. 217 (1790). 

 Coturnix dactylisonans, Meyer. 

 Coturnix vulgaris, Fleming. 



Tetrao coturnix, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 278 (1766). 



Nauraann, Vog. Dents. VI, Plate CLXVI ; Gould, B. of Eur. IV, 

 Plate CCLXIII. 



Specimens in the collection of the Expedition are from the Cape de 

 Verde Islands, and are in apparently adult plumage. They appear to 

 be the same as the Euroj^ean species, but have the bill rather stronger 

 than usual in that bird. 



Mr. Peale remarks with reference to this species : 



" Quails were found in great abundance at the Island of St. Jago, 

 one of the Cape de Verde Islands. They do not, on examination, 

 present any characteristics by which they can be separated from those 

 found in Europe, but from their being very fat on the 6th of October, 

 and on dissection presenting satisfactory evidence that it was the com- 

 mencement of the breeding season with them, we cannot suppose them 

 individually the same which have migrated south. 



" The retreats of this bird, among high strong grass, were betrayed 

 by the often-repeated cry, j^et-icet-zcef, which can be heard about one 

 hundred yards. On approaching them, they flush within about twenty 

 feet, Hying generally in a straight line, and are consequently easily 

 shot." 



4. Genus THINOCORUS, EschscJwltz, Zoo). Atlas, p. 2 (1829). 



1. TiiiNOCORUS iNGM, Tscliudi. 



Thinocorus ingcc, TscH. Wiegm. Archiv, 1843, p. 387. Faun. Per. Orn. p. 279. 

 Glareola cuneicaucla, Peale, Zool. Exp. Exp. Birds, p. 244 (first edition, 1848).* 

 Thinocorus Swainsoni, Lesson, 111. Zool. p. (not paged, 1831) ? 



* " In general form and appearance like a Sparrow. Head, neck, and wing-coverts, 

 pale tawny ; the back darker ; all the feathers of the upper parts are sepia-brown in the 



