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PARTRIDGE. 



26. 



CRESTED (^ 



Tetrao criftatus, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 277. 18. 



La Caille huppee duMexique, Brif. orn. i. p. 260. pi. 25. f. 2.— PI. enl. 126. 

 Le Zonecolin, Buf. oif. ii. p. 485 *. 

 Quauhtzonecolin, Rati Syn. p. 158. — Will. orn. p. 393. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. 



Place. 



I Z E of our Quail : length fix inches three quarters. Bill very 

 ftout, and brown : on the head is a narrow creft, an inch 

 in length ; this creft, the crown of the head, and chin, are 

 fulvous : cheeks, neck, back, and rump, and from the belly to 

 the vent, variegated with- rufous, brown, black, and dirty yel- 

 lowifh white, inclining moil to black on the cheeks and neck, 

 and to rufous on the breafi: and belly : the quills are brown : 

 tail variegated brown and grey : legs brown. 



Inhabits Guiana and Mexico. That in the PL enl. has the 

 throat, as well as the fpace between the bill and eye, fulvous. 

 I believe it to be the fame bird defcribed by Brijfon, but 

 there does not feem to be any mixture of black in the plu- 



mage. 



* Buffon merely fays, that it is obfcure in colour, and diftinguilhed by its cry, 

 which is flat, and fomewhat plaintive. Another is alfo mentioned, without the 

 creft, rather fmaller, which is molt likely different in fex.— See Fernend, Hijl. 

 Av. ch. 39. 



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