36-
MANILLA Qi
D e s c r i p t i o n .
V Ir
P l a c e .
37-
GIBRALTAR
D e s c r i p t i o i
Place.
La petite Caille de L*Iile de Luçon, Son. Têy. p. 34, pi. 24;
^ I Z E of an Houfe Sparrow : length only four inches. Bill
dufky ; top and hind part of the head black : back and
wings the fame, marked with oblong grey lines on the wings :
throat white : Tides tinged .with rufous ; breaft greyifh, tranf-
verfely fpotted with black: belly yellow, banded with black:
legs dufky.
Inhabits the ifland of Manilla.
* * W i t h T H R E E T O E S .
~ Lev. Mu/.
. i t E N G T H fix.inches and a half. Bill black: crown chef-
nut brown, fringed with white: back the fame, barred with
black: wing coverts rufty brown ; in the middle of each a black
fpot furrounded with white, which alfo ends the feathers : chin
.and throat barred black and dufky white: breaft white, with
a crefcent of black on each feather, except down the middle,
which is of a pale ruft-colour; and there is likewife a mixture of
this laft along with the black : belly, fides, and vent, paler, inclining
to yellow: quills and tail dufky; the laft fhort, and
ftriated with black and rufous brown, fringed with white : legs
pale : toes only three in number, all placed forwards.
In the colledtion of Sir Ajhton Lever, who had it from Gibraltar.
( j E N E R A L colour an elegant rufous; the feathers irregularly
marked and barred with black: fides of the neck
fpotted with the laft: the under parts, from the chin to the vent,
pale rufous white, with a yellow tinge on the fore part of the
neck and breaft : the quills- dufky : the bill and legs are flefh-
coloured; the laft has only three toes, all placed forwards.
This inhabits Andalufia *.
La Caille de Madagafcar, Brif. on. i. p. 252. 16. pi. 24. f. 2,— Buf. eif. if
P. 479 —-P l.n l. 171.
§ I Z E of our Quail: length fix inches and a half. Bill cinereous:
the upper parts of the head, and fides of it and the
neck, white and black, with a mixture of rufous:. the upper parts
of the neck and body are variegated with afh-coloured, rufous, and
black ; the laft in ftreaks, and in fome parts broader, forming
fpots : wing coverts irregularly mixed, rufous and afh-colour -
befides which are fome irregular fpots of yellowifh white, moft of
them accompanied with a ftreak of black : fcapulars partly the
fame, except there is a whitifh ftreak on fome of the feathers-
chin and fore pan of the neck black, ending in a point on the
breaft: the breaft itfelf, fides of the body, belly, thighs, and vent
cinereous : fides of the breaft rufous : under tail coverts ftriped
with black: quills brown; the three or four outer ones edged
9 / L ' r i l B likeIy the fame bira with the n r e e - t o e ^ a of
which he fays .a a bird of palfage, and is caught by running it down
for having been fprung once or twice, it becomes fo fatigued as to be overt,!- ’
and knocked down with a Hick. — Tran,, p. 3oo. % overtaken
with
38.
ANDALUSIAN
n ^ P l a t e i n
F rontispiece*
D e s c r i p t i o n *
Flace*
39-
BLACK-
NECKED Q.
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