Place.
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*■ MARYLAND
P.
D escription.
Female.
Place and
Manners.
with black : wing coverts rufous brown and black: quills dull
brown, edged with rufous: tail plain dull brown : legs brown.
Inhabits America, where it perches on trees, frequenting the
woody rather than the open lpots.
Tetrao Marilandus, tin . Syjt. a. p. 277.- 17.
La Pedrix de la Nouvelle Angleterre, Brif. on. i. p. 229. 6._Buf. oif. ii.
p. 447.
New England Partridge, Jlhin. i. pi. 28— Brmxm. Jam. p. 471.— J r a. Zool,
Br. Muf. tern. Muf.
T E S S than our Partridge. Bill ftout, black : irides yellow i
head, and all the upper parts, rufous brown, minutely
mottled with black, and fome of the fcapulars have a ftreak of
yellow on them : the forehead is white, which divides, and forms
a ftreak of the fame over each eye, palling behind it, and fome
way down the neck at the back part: above this white ftreak the
feathers are dulky black : the chin and throat are white, bounded
all round by dulky black, which is deepeft before, and Ihaped
like a cre/cent: the under parts of the body are dirty yellowifli
white, marked with curved black lines: the Tides, thighs, and
vent, mixed with ehefnut: legs brown. In fome birds there is
a mixture of white on each-fide -of the neck backwards ; and the
black crefcent on the fore part of the neck deeper, and of a
darker colour.
The hen fcarcely differs from the cock, except that the chin is
buff-coloured.
This fpecies is found in America, from Eafi Florida to Nova
Scotia, to which laft place it migrates in fpring, and breeds alt
over
over the middle provinces in the month of June, where it multiplies
aftonifhingly, laying from twenty-two to twenty-five
white eggs. The neft a few dry herbs raked together. It feeds
on Indian corn and berries. Oftener found in brulhy places and
hedges than in the open fields, and if difturbed frequently takes
to the trees. Returns fouthward in autumn, and is accounted
good eating. The note is a loud kind of whittle, twice quick
repeated. Known by the natives by the name of Ho-ouy * ; the
New Englanders call it Eob-White. Towards winter grows tame,
and flocks of three or four dozen come into farm-yards for the
loofe grain, or run before the traveller to pick it from the horle-
dung on the road. This bird is likewife faid to be found jn
Sweden f as well as America.
Tetrao coturnix, Lin. Syji. i. p. 278. 20.—Faun. Suec. N° 206.— Seep, ann• i. ,
N° 176.— Bran. N° 202.—Mutter, N° 226.— Kram. el. p. 357. 7.—, +. COMMON
Fri/cb. pi. 1 17.— Georgi Rei/e, p. 173. QUAIL.
Tetrao Ifraelitorum, HaJJelq. Foy. p, 279. p. 44.
La Caille, Brif. orn. i. p. 247. 14.— Buf. oif. ii. p. 449. pi. 16.— P7. enl.
170.
The Quail, Rail Syn. p. 58. A. 6.-—#7//. om. p. 169. pi. 2g.—Albiu. i,
pi. 30.—Br. Zool. i. N° 97.— Artt. Zool.
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf.
L E N G T H feven inches and a half. Bill dulky: the head
black, mixed with rufous : down the middle of the crown,
and back part of the neck, runs a yellowifh ftreak j and another
?f the fame over each eye: the feathers of the back and wings
are ferruginous brown, variegated with tawny and grey, and
HiJ}. de la Leuif ii, p. 126.
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f Kalm. Trav.
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