CHINESE QUAIL. 
The Chinese Quail is the Tetra Chinensis 
of Linnseus and Gmelin. BufFon, who calls 
it the RufF, or Chinese Quail, says that, in 
the Planches Enluminees, it is figured by the 
name of the Quail of the Philippines ; because 
it was sent from those islands to the Royal 
Cabinet. But,'* adds he, it is also found 
in China : and I have called it the RufF, on 
account of a sort of white RuiF under it's 
neck ; which is the more remarkable, as it's 
plumage is of a brown, verging on black. 
Edwards has given a figure of the male : it 
difFers from the female in our Planches En- 
luminees, in being somewhat larger, though 
still not bigger than a Lark» It's aspecf is 
also more marked ; the colour of it's pluniage 
more lively and variegated ; and it's feet are- 
stronger." 
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This bird, which we have, in our figure 
annexed, copied from Edwards, is thus de- 
scribed by that transcendent ornithologist— . 
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