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-OF BIRDS. 75. 
The Chinefe Quail is a very {mall fpecies, the 
body is beautifully fpotted with grey, the throat is 
black, the cheeks and fore part of the neck white. 
They are found in China, and the Phillipine 
fMands. The Chinefe ufe them to keep their 
hands warm in winter ; and the Europeans often 
buy them to make pies with on their voyage home 
from China. are 
There is a fpecies called the Pintado Partridge, 
becaule it makes a noife like the Pintado, or 
Guinea Fowl; it perches on trees, and is found 
in Madagafcar, Re 
. The Damafcus Partridge, another fpecies, with 
yellow legs, and a bill longer than the common 
Partridge, though it be a fmaller bird, has often 
been {een paffing through France in large flocks 5 
one hundred and fifty or two hundred were ftopped 
a whole day in their paflage by a call-bird of the 
common fpecies, which they very much refemble. 
The Pearl Partridge is another fpecies, inhabits 
China, and is ufed by the Chinefe, like others 
of this genus, to keep their hands warm in 
wipter, | 
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