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COMMON QUAJL« 



Si/n, 4. 7fQ. 24. — Lath. Syn. Sup. p. 222. — Lath. Syn. Sap. 



II. p. 280.--Letvm. Brit, Birds. 4. pL IZQ.— Wale. Syn. 2. pi 



ISS.^Pult. Cat. Dors. p. y.-^Mont. Orn. Diet. 2.— Mont. 



Orn. Diet. Supp.—Betvick, Brit. Birds. 1. 308. — Bing. Anim, 



Biog. 2. 264. 

 Var. |3. Corpore albido aut toto albo. 

 With the body whitish, or entirely white. 

 Coturnix dactylisonans, var. (a.) Temm. Gall, Ind, p. 742. 



This well known bird is considerably less than 

 the common Partridge, measuring only seven inches 

 and a half in length : its beak is dusky : irides 

 yellow : the crown of the head is black, transversely 

 marked with rufous brown : down the middle is a 

 yellowish white line, and above the eyes is another 

 of the same, which passes behind them, and some 

 way down the neck at the back part: the chin, 

 and throat are white, bounded by a black crescent, 

 which is deepest in front : the hind part of the 

 neck, the back, the 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 with less white : 

 breast pale ferruginous brown, the shafts of the 

 feathers white : belly and under parts dirty yel- 

 lowish white, mixed with lunulated black lines : 

 thighs varied with chesnut : quills dusky, the outer 

 webs more or less mottled with yellowish white : 

 tail very short ; dusky, with white tips ; consisting 

 of twelve feathers, which are almost hidden by the 

 coverts. 



The female differs in having the chin buff- 

 coloured, with a dusky mark passing from the ear 

 downward : the breast is spotted with dusky, and 



