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CHINESE QUAIL. 
Lin. Sj/st. i. p. 277. 19. 
Bris. Orn. i. p. 25 4. p. 25. 
Buff. Ois. ii. p. 41%. 
Edzv. p. 2 41 . 
Lath. Sin. ii. p. 7 83. 
This bird is represented in the Plate of its natural size; it is not only con- 
siderably less than our indigenous Quail, but it differs very materially in 
the colour ofits'plumage. 
The bill is black, the fore part of the head of a bluish ash colour, all the 
upper part pale brown, beautifully powdered with dusky spots ; the middle 
of each feather on the back and rump has a pale orange-colour stripe with 
black lines on each side ; the wing feathers are brown with transverse dusky 
lines ; the throat is black ; the cheeks, and fore part of the neck white, en- 
circled with a black band rising from each corner of the mouth, and form- 
ing a crescent on the breast : the upper part of the neck, breast, and sides, 
is ash colour, with transverse dusky bars; the belly, thighs, and coverts un- 
dei the tail are of a reddish orange, with a line of luteous dirty white along 
the middle of the belly; the legs are yellow, the claws brown. 
These birds are found in China and the Philippine islands, and are held 
m great estimation by the Chinese, who train them up to fight, as we do 
t>aine coc ^ s i n England. And as they are of a very hot constitution, so 
much bioie so than any other bird, as to give rise to a proverb — warm as a 
Quail, the Chinese make a practice to carry them alive in their hands, as a 
security against the cold in winter. 
Tetrao Chinensis. 
La Caille des Philippines. 
La Fraise, ou Caille de la 
Chine. 
Chinese Quail. 
