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Title: A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge

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one foot twoinches in width; greater and lesser wing coverts, pale riifousbrown, streaked with brown and yellowish grey; primaries,dusky brown, banded on the outer webs with pale red, thefirst one with its outer edge white. The tail, of fourteenfeathers, dark brown, barred with whitish; upper tail coverts,rufous brown; under tail coverts, pale yellowish white. Legs,toes, and claws, greyish yellow. The female is paler in general colour; the neck is withoutthe crescents and the black patch: a dusky streak passes downfrom behind the eyes; chin and throat, pale yellowish white;the breast is marked with small dark spots on each side of QUAIL. 233 the straw-coloured shafts; greater and lesser wing coverts, crossedwith yellowish white bars; legs and toes, greyish yellow. The young of the year resemble the female; the males donot acquire the black patch till the second year. Varieties have occurred of a white and of a yellowish whitecolour, some spotted with white, and others dusky all over.
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AllTDALITSIAN QFAIL. 235 nape, dark yellowish brown, with numerous bars of chesnut,black, and buff white; chin, dull yellowish white; throat andbreast on the upper part, pale chesnut, the latter on thesides yellowish white, the feathers tipped with black, and witha crescent-shaped mark of rich orange buff, deepest in front;on the lower part buff white and pure white; back, yellowishdusky brown, finely pencilled transversely with zigzag markingsof reddish ash-colour, and lines of brown and chesnut, eachfeather being finely margined with white. G-reater and lesserwing coverts, yellowish brown, with large spots of a palershade, witli a darker spot in the centre of each; primaries,dusky greyish brown, with a light-coloured line along the edgeof the outer web. Tail, greyish brown; upper tail coverts,yellowish lusky brown; under tail coverts, white. Legs andtoes, pale yellowish brown. EKD OF VOL. IT. B. FAWCETT, KNGJlAVi^H AM) ilUXTEll, DIUKFIKU). i

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