32ft P A R T R I D G E .
24.
+. COMMON
QUAIL.
V a r . B.
Common Quail, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 779. N° 24.
Tetrao coturnix, Sepp Vog. pi. in p. 143.— Faun. Arag. p. 83 ,~-HaJ[elg. Voy.
Eng. ed. p. 203. N° 44.
Lev. Muf.
Description. J N the Leverian Mufeum is a variety. The crown of the head
brown : over the eyes, and round them to the hind head, white,
dotted with black: the reft of the neck pale rufous yellow, dafhed
with white down the fhafts : the lower part of the neck, all round
the back, between the wings, the breaft, belly, and outer edge of
the wing, white: wing coverts and fcapulars yellow brown, barred
with dark brown, and each feather dafhed with yellow down the
fhaft: quills yellow brown : tail mottled brown, towards the end
chefnut, the tips very pale and mottled, the two outer feathers
w hite: legs yellow.
36. a.
CH IT T Y GONG
P.
Description.
C I Z E o f a Pheafant: length feventeen inches. Bill pale afh-
colour: a broad oval fpace round the eyes, naked, and of a
pink-colour, beginning at the noftrils, and ending in a point behind
; noftrils placed in a kind of cere: the head and neck white,
marked with black lines : on the ear a brown patch : back and
wings moft beautifully marked with bars and lines o f black arid
pale brown, and edged and tipped with white : breaft black,
marked with femilunar lines o f white : belly pale reddilh brown,
edged with white, and marked irregularly in the middle with
dufky: tail mottled white and pale brown, croffed with bars
or zigzag lines o f black and white : legs the colour of the bill,
and not furnifhed with a fpur behind.
I This
This bird inhabits India, and is there, by the lefs informed, fop- Piacs .
pofed to be the female o f the Impeyan Pheafant, but falfely, as it
comes from a different part of the country. It is common in the
lower parts o f Bengal, and in the province of Chittygong.— Mr.
Middleton. I likewife find the fame among the drawings of Lady
Impey. I t is a moft beautiful bird, and, if one might hazard a
foppofition, may poffibly hereafter proye to be the female of the
Ceylon Partridge*, the true fize o f which has not hitherto been
determined.
Tetrao pedibus antice hirfuds, &c. Faun. drag. p. 81. N3 3. pi. 7. f. 2. 36. b,
ARAGONIANP.
C I Z E bigger than the Common Partridge. Bill black: head D e s c r i p t i o n .
^ afh-colour : throat black: round the neck ferruginous : breaft
rufous, croffed with a band of black : back variegated brown and
ferruginous : belly, thighs, and quills, b la ck: wing coverts ferruginous
5 beneath them white : tail cuneiform, cinereous brown
the outer feathers tipped with white : vent white, fpotted with
ferruginous: legs afh-coloured, hairy on the fore part, and fur-
nifhed with a fpur behind.
T h z female differs in having a grey breaft, and the band thereon
narrower than in the male.
T h e above inhabits the neighbourhood o f Saragofa, in Arago- Pl a s i .
nia, and makes a neft on the ground, laying four or five teftaceous-
coloured eggs, fpotted with brown j and is known by the name o f
Churra.
* Syn, vol. iv. p. 758.
Lev.