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CALIFORNIAN COLIN. 



bright reddish brown, sprinkled with black and a 

 little white : the whole of the under parts, and the 

 lower tail-coverts, have on each feather three pure 

 white spots on either web ; these spots are bounded 

 by black, and the middle of the feathers are fine 

 red-chesnut : the quills and the secondaries are 

 brown : the feathers of the tail are deep brown, 

 with innumerable waves of black : the beak is 

 black, and the feet yellowish. The female is smaller, 

 has not the crest, and the colours are less brilliant. 



This inhabits the central parts of America and 

 Guiana, frequenting the vicinity of woods : the 

 female lays twice in the year : the young secrete 

 themselves among the thick herbage, and when 

 startled fly but a few feet from the ground. 



CALIFORNIAN COLIN. 

 (Ortyx Californica.) 



Ok. plumbea, crista verticali erecta, guld nigra albo cinct&, ab* 



domine testaceo lunulis nigris. 

 Lead-coloured Colin, with an erect vertical crest) the throat 



black, bounded with white; the abdomen testaceous^ with 



black lunules. 



Perdix Californica. Lath, Ind, Orn. Sup, Ixii. 2. — Temm. Galh 

 Ind, 738. 



Tetrao Californicus. Shatx). Nat. Misc. pi. 345. 

 Californian Quail. Lath. Syn, Sup. 11. p. 281. 7. 



