The Quail. Coturnix.
Numb. XXX.
IT S Length from the tip of the Bill to the end of the Tail is 7 Inches and a half j
the Breadth when the Wings are extended, 14 Inches and a quarter; it commonly
weiffhs when fat and fleihy, 3 O u n c e s and 14 Drams.
Its Bill from the tip to the corners of the Mouth is half an Inch long; its Figure
more deprefled and plain than in the reft o f this Kind; the lower Chap black, the upper
o f a pale duiky : The Irides of the Eyes are of a hazel Colours the E y e s have a naftating
MThcrBreaft and Belly are of a dirty pale yellow; the Throat hath a little Mixture of
red • under the lower Chap of the Bill is a long and broad Stroak of black tending downwards
"above the Eyes and along the Middle of the Head are whmih Streaks or Lines ;
the Head has a Mixture of black, red and cinereous Colours m it; the middle Part of
each covert Feather of the Back and lower Part of the Neck is marked with a pale yel-
lowiih Stroak, the reft of the Feathers being party-colour’d of black and rediih afh-colour;
under the Wings is a Bed of white terminated on each Side with a Border of red mingled
W TheBekam or quill Feathers of the Wings are duiky, crofted with pale Lanes; the
lefier Rows of hard Feathers in the Wings wholly of one and the iame rediih Colour ,
the Tail is ihort, not above an Inch and a half long, confiftingof 12 Feathers of a black-
ifh Colour interrupted with pale red tranfverie Lincs. 1 .1 ^
The Feet are of a pale fleih-colour covered with a Skin divided rather into Scales than
i n t h e Rfngs; the S o le L f the Feet yellow; the outer Toes, as far as the firft joint, are
rnnne&ed with the middlemoft by an intervening Membrane.
It hath a Gall-bladder; the Cock hath large Tefticles for the Bignefs of’ the]Body,
whence it may be thought to be a falacious Bird; it hath a mufculous Stomach m' G'z
zard and ,“ ft above the Stomach the Gullet is dilated into a Bag, which 1
Anti’ ftomich • the interior Superficies whereof is granulated with papillary Glandules,
^ o r caching of Quail " they ufe this Art : The Fowler betimes in the Morning having
i t S thinking^m t ? h i fNoteh ofCthe J * ^all of the Pipe,
Cold.