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SONNINIS COLIN. 



(Ortyx Sonninii.) 



Or, crisfata J gutture castaneo, corpore supra, cauda pectoreque 

 rubescente-cinereis macuUs nigris conspersis, suhtus cadanea, 

 mamlis albis nigro-circumdatis, (Femina capite l(£vi, colore 

 dilutiore. ) 



Crested Colin, with the throat chesnutj the body above, the 

 tail, and the breast, reddish grey, sprinkled with black spots ; 

 beneath chesnut, with white spots, which are edged by black. 

 {Female with the head smooth, and the colours of the body 

 paler. ) 



Perdix Sonninii. Temm. Gall. Ind.p. 737. 

 Colin Sonnini. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. p. 451. 

 Le Caille de Cayenne. Somi. Buff. 7. 133. 



This species was confounded with the former 

 till separated in Sonnini s edition of BufFon, where 

 it is described : it is rather more than seven inches 

 in length : four or five narrow elongated feathers 

 are situated on the top of the head, between the 

 eyes, and form a crest ; these are yellow, tinged 

 with brown in the centre : the forehead is yel- 

 lowish, as is the part surrounding the base of both 

 mandibles of the beak : the throat, and a broad 

 band behind the eyes, are of a deep red : the 

 feathers of the nape and the sides of the neck are 

 spotted with white, black, and chesnut : the top 

 of the back is grey-red, waved with black : the 

 rest of the upper parts is grey-red, spotted with 

 black, and undulated with brown : the breast is 



