COMMON QUAIL. 



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they have no spurs. They reside on the ground : 

 their food consists of grains, seeds, and various 

 kinds of insects : the females deposit their eggs in 

 hollows on the ground, with scarcely any ap- 

 pearance of a nest. They are distributed over the 

 Old Continent, but are not found in the New. 



COMMON QUAIL. 

 (Coturnix Dactylisonans.) 



Co. corpore griseo-ferrugineo maculis nigris vario, rachi pen^ 

 narum flavicante, superciliis t(Enidque longitudinali i?i vertice, 

 alhis, guld riifdf nigro cinctd* (Femina dilutior, gula alba,) 



Quail with the body rusty-grey^ varied with black spots j the 

 shafts of the feathers yellowish ; the eyebrows and a longi- 

 tudinal stripe on the crown white ; the throat rufous, bounded 

 by black. {Female paler, with the throat white.) 



Coturnix dactylisonans. Temm, Gall, Ind, p. 740. 



Coturnix. Briss. Orn. 1 . 247. 14. 



Coturnix major. Briss. Orn, 1. 251.? 



Perdix Coturnix. Lath, Ind, Orn, 2. 65 1 . 28.-— Nilss. Orn. Slice. 



1. 31 6. — Leach. Cat. Brit. Miis,p.27. 

 Tetrao Coturnix. Linn. Si/st. Nat. 1. 278. 20. — Linn. Faun. 



Suec. No. 206. — Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 1. 765. — Raii. Syn. 58. a. 



6.— Will, p. 121./. 29. 

 La Caille. Bnf, Ois. 2. 449. pi. \Q.—Buff. PL Enl. 170.— 



Temm. Pig, et Gall, 3, p. 478.— Temm. Man. d'Orni. /;. 311- 

 Le Crokiel, ou Caille de Pologne. Buff. Ois. 2. 251. ? 

 The Quail. Penn, Brit, Zool. 1. gy^—Pcnit, Arct, Zool. 2. 320. 



B.^Albin. Birds, I, pi, 30.^ Will. Ang. p, l6g.— Lath, Gen. 



