Quail. 
QUAIL (^Coturnix major, Brisson.) 
*Perdix Coturnix, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 651. sp.28. — Tetrao Coturnix, Linn. Syst. 
1. p. 278. 20. — Faun. Suec. No. 206. — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 765. — Raii, Syn. p. 
58. A. 6. — Will. p. 121. t. 29. — Briss, 1. p. 247 Coturnix major, Ib. 1. p. 251. 
Coturnix vulgaris, Flem. Bv. Anim. p. 45 La Caille, Buff.- Ois. 2. p. 449. t. 
16 — Ih. pi. Enl. 170. — Temm. pig. et Gall. 3. p. 478. — lb. Man. d’Oin. 2. p. 
491. — Le Crokiel, Buff. Ois. 2. p. 255. — Wachtel Feldhuhn, Bechst. Naturg. 
Deut. 3. p. 1402. — Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 306 Frisch, Vbg. t. 117. 
male and female. — De Wachtel, Sepp. Nederl. Vbg, t. p. 143. — Common Quail, 
Br. Zool. 1. No. 99. — Arct. Zool. 2. p. 320. B Albin, l.t. 30. — IFi//. ( Angl.) 
p. 169. — Lewin’s Br. Birds, 4. t. 138. — Lath. Syn. 4. p. 779. 24 — Ih. Supp. p. 
222. — Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. — Ib. Supp. — Wale. Syn. 2. t. 185. — Pult. Cat. Dor- 
set. p. 7. — BewicFs Br. Birds, 1. p. t. 308, male. — Selby, pi. 62. p. 319.* 
This species is about seven inches and a half in length ; bill 
dusky ; irides hazel ; in old male birds yellow : the crown of the head 
is black, transversely marked with rufous-brown ; down the middle is 
a yellowish white line ; above the eye, passing backwards, is another 
line of the same colour ; on the chin and throat is a black mark, which 
turns upwards to the ears ; the rest of those parts are white ; the hind 
part of the neck, back, 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 has not so much of the 
white streaks ; breast light ferruginous brown ; shafts white ; belly 
