3c8 BRITISH BIRDS, 
THE QUAIL* 
{Tetrao coturmx > Lin . — La Caille , Buff.) 
T he length feven inches and a half : Bill duf- 
ky ; eyes hazel ; the colours of the head, neck, 
and back are a mixture of brown, afh colour, and 
black; over each eye there is a yellowilh ftreak, 
and another of the fame colour down the middle of 
the forehead ; a dark line pafies from each corner 
of the bill, forming a kind of gorget above the 
breaft ; the fcapular feathers are marked by a light 
yellowilh ftreak down the middle of each ; the 
quills are of a lightifh brown, with fmall ruft co- 
loured bands on the exterior edges of the feathers ; 
the breaft is of a pale ruft colour, fpotted with 
black, and ftreaked with pale yellow ; the tail con- 
fifts of twelve feathers, barred like the wings ; the 
belly and thighs are of a yellowilh white; legs 
pale brown. We were favoured with a very fine 
