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Tetrao Mexicanus, tin. Syft. i. p. 277. 14. 27. 



La Caille de la Louifiane, Brif. cm. i. p. 258 20. pi. 22. f. 2.- PI. enl. LOUISIANE Q^ 



149. 

 Le Colenicui, Buf. oif. ii. p. 487. 

 Americanifche Hazel-huhn, Frifcb. pi. 113. 



Colcuicuiltic, or Quail's Image, Rail Syn. p. 158. — Will. em. p. 393. 



Lev. Muf. 



CIZE of our Quail : length eight inches. Bill red : the head Description. 



is black and chefnut mixed, the feathers being tipped with 

 the laft colour: over each eye a ftripe of white, which pafTes 

 behind, and a little way on the fide of the neck : throat white : 

 hind part of the neck variegated with chefnut, black, and white : 

 the upper part of the body, rump, and wings, chefnut, crofled 

 with undulated black ftripes : fore part of the neck to the vent 

 dirty white, crofled with blackifh ftripes, and a mixture of rufous 

 fpots on the neck and fides : under tail coverts rufous, with 

 paler tips : quills brown, edged with grey, and fpotted with 

 rufous outwardly : the two middle tail feathers chefnut, crofled 

 with minute black ftripes ; the reft afn-colour, and more or lef&, 

 tipped with the colours of the two middle ones : legs and claws 

 red. 



Inhabits Louifiana, Mexico, &c. One of thefe, in the Leverian Placf. 



Mufeura, anfwers to the defcription above ; but the tail is wholly 

 dufky. 



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