. A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris . lack mark-ings; the latter edged with yellowish white. The tail, oftwelve feathers, short and much rounded, is greyish blue orash-colour, sprinkled with reddish brown, waved towards theend with yellowish red; upper tail coverts, olive brown andyellowish brown, pencilled with black; under tail coverts, lightyellowish red, with dusky streaks on the centres of the feathersand whitish tips. Legs and toes, light ash-colour; claws,dusky. Female; length, nine inches; the band over the eyes andthe head on the sides, light yellowish brown; crown
. A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris . lack mark-ings; the latter edged with yellowish white. The tail, oftwelve feathers, short and much rounded, is greyish blue orash-colour, sprinkled with reddish brown, waved towards theend with yellowish red; upper tail coverts, olive brown andyellowish brown, pencilled with black; under tail coverts, lightyellowish red, with dusky streaks on the centres of the feathersand whitish tips. Legs and toes, light ash-colour; claws,dusky. Female; length, nine inches; the band over the eyes andthe head on the sides, light yellowish brown; crown, palerthan in the male; neck in front, light red on the lowerpart; on the back and the nape, paler than in the , light yellowish brown, margined with black, brown,and yellowish red spots; breast, light red; back, paler thanin the male. The tail, more undulated with red and greyishwhite. The young at first have the bill brownish yellow; iris, lighthazel; the head on the sides, dusky; the upper parts lightyellowish brown, with patches of v 229 QUAIL. COMMON QUAIL. Perdix coturniXf Latham. Tetrao coturnix, Li>>\eus. Perdix^A Partridge. Coturnix—A Quail. The Quail is very abundant on the continent of Europe,in Italy and France, and in Sicily, and the Greek go as far north in summer as Lapland, and the moretemperate parts of Siberia and Eussia; and are also found inAfrica, even at the Cape of Good Hope; and in many partsof Asia, in China, India, Malacca, and Japan. In England they are much less common than they werefifty years ago, while the contrary is the case in Ireland, butin some seasons they are more plentiful than in others. In Yorkshire they seem to have been formerly more abundantthan they are now. They are occasionally met with aboutSheffield, and used to breed in the vicinity of Halifax, likewisenear York, also near Leeds, at Seacroft, Killingbeck, andChurwell, and near Huddersfield, Burlington, and other ]> Norf
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