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Place.
Tetrao criftatus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 277. 18.
La Caille huppee du Mexique, Brif. orn. i. p. 260. pi. 25. f. 2.-—PL enl. 126.
Le Zonecolin, Buf. oif. ii. p. 485 *.
Quauhtzoriecolin, Rati Syn. p. 158.—Will, orn. p. 393.
. Lev. Muf,
Q I Z E of our Quail: length fix inches three quarters. Bill very
^ flout, and brown: on the head is a narrow creft, an inch
in length ; this creft, the crown of the head, and chin, are
fulvous : cheeks, neck, back, and rump, and from the belly to
the vent, variegated with rufous, brown, black, and dirty yel-
lowilh white, inclining moft to black on the cheeks and neck,
and to rufous on the breaft and belly : the quills are brown :
tail variegated brown and grey : legs brown.
Inhabits Guiana and Mexico. That in the PI. enl. has the
throat, as well as the fpace between the bill and eye,- fulvous.
I believe it to be the fame bird defcribed by Brijfon, but
there does not feem to be any mixture of black in the plumage.
• Buffon merely fays, that it is obfcure in colour, and diftinguilhed by its cry,
which is flat, and fomewhat plaintive. Another is alfo mentioned, without the
creft, rather fmaller, which is moft likely different in fex.—See Fernand. Hift.
Av. ch. 39.
Tetrao
Tetrao Mexicanus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 277. 14. 2y.
La Caille de la Louiiiane, Brif. orn% i. p. 258 20. pi. 22. f. z.—Pl. enl. LOUIS1ANE
149.
Le Colenicui, Buf. oif. ii. p. 487.
Americanifche Hazel-huhn, Frifcb. pi. 113.
Colcuicuiltic, or Quail’s Image, Rail Syn. p. 158.— Will. orn. p. 393»
Lev. Muf
g I Z E of our Quail: length eight inches. Bill red: the head DascaieTtov.
is black and chefnut mixed, the feathers being tipped with
the laft colour: over each eye a ftripe of white, which pafies
behind, and a little way on the fide of the neck: throat white :
hind part of the neck variegated with chefnut, black, and white :
the upper part of the body, rump, and wings, chefnut, crofied
with undulated black ftripes : fore part of the neck to the vent
dirty white, crofied with blackilh ftripes, and a mixture of rufous
fpots on the neck and fides : under tail coverts rufous, with
paler tips : quills brown, edged with grey, and fpotted with
rufous outwardly : the two middle tail feathers chefnut, crofted
with minute black ftripes ; the reft alh-colour, and more or lefs
tipped with the colours of the two middle onesf. legs and claws
red.
Inhabits Louifiana, Mexico, See. One of thefe, in the Leverian Piac».
Mufeum, anfwers to the defeription above ; but the tail is wholly
dufky.
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