Quail. 



QUAIL (Cotv/rnioc major, Brisson.) 



*Perdix Coturnix, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 651. sp. 28. — Tetrao Coturnix, Linn. Syst. 



1. p. 278. 20— Faun. Suec. No. 206.— Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 765 Raii, Syn. p. 



58. A. 6.— Will. p. 121. t. 29 Briss. 1. p. 247.— Coturnix major, lb. 1. p. 251. 



Coturnix vulgaris, Flem. Br. Anim. p. 45 La Caille, Buf. Ois. 2. p. 449. t. 



16 lb. pi. Enl. 170 Temm. pig. et Gall. 3. p. 478 lb. Man. d'Orn. 2. p. 



491.— Le Crokiel, Buff. Ois. 2. p. 255.— Wachtel Feldhuhn, Bechst. Naturg. 



Deut. 3. p. 1402 Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 306 Frisch, Vog. t. 117. 



male and female. — De Wachtel, Sepp. Nederl. Vog. t. p. 143. — Common Quail, 



Br. Zool. 1. No. 99.— Arct.Zool. 2. p. 320. B Albin, 1. 1. 30.— Will. ( AnglJ 



p. 169.—Lewin's Br. Birds, 4. t. 138.— Lath. Syn. 4. p. 779. 24 lb. Supp. p. 



222.— Mont. Orn. Diet. 2.— Ib. Supp JFa/c. Syn. 2. t. 185.— Pw/t. Cat. Dor- 

 set, p. 7.— Bewick's Br. Birds, 1. p. t. 308. male Selby, pi. 62. p. 319* 



This species is about seven inches and a half in length ; bill 



dusky ; irides hazel ; in old male birds yellow : the crown of the head 



is black, transversely marked with rufous-brown ; down the middle is 



a yellowish white line ; above the eye, passing backwards, is another 



line of the same colour ; on the chin and throat is a black mark, which 



turns upwards to the ears ; the rest of those parts are white ; the hind 



part of the neck, back, scapulars, and tail coverts are rufous-brown ; 



the middle of each feather streaked with yellowish white, surrounded 



more or less with black ; sides the same, but has not so much of the 



white streaks ; breast lig-ht ferruginous brown ; shafts white ; belly 



