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Identifier: britishgamebirds00morr (find matches)
Title: British game birds and wildfowl
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Morris, Beverley Robinson Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893, engraver
Subjects: Game and game-birds Birds Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons ...
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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streak of yellowish white, having on 92 QUAIL. each side a broader streak of dark brown; over the eye is another yellow white line, aslong as that on the crown. Chin and throat, white, with a double semicircular band ofdark brown running down from under and behind the eye, and having a black patch atthe bottom in front. Breast, brown ochre, the shafts of the feathers nearly white; lowerbreast, abdomen, and under tail coverts of a yellowish white. The upper parts are brown,with the shafts pale brown. Quills, brown, the outer webs marked with light brown,except the first, which has the outer edge whitish. Tail, of twelve feathers, brown; hid bythe upper coverts. Legs and feet, yellowish brown. The female is without the semicircular dark marks on the neck. The young birds resemble the female, and the males are two years old before theyattain the dark bands on the neck. The weight is about three ounces and a half. The length of the male is eight inches; the female being half an inch less.
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p<p ft ANDALUSIAN QUAIL. ANDALUSIAN HEMIPODE. GIBRALTAR QUAIL. JTemipodiiis tacJii/dromus, ..... Gould. Turnix tacliydroma, ...... Tejimixce. Hemipodius. Semi—Half, and pom—A foot. Tachydromns—Taehus—Swift, and dromeus—A runner. A solitary individual of this little bird was shot on the 29th. of October, 1844, ina barley field in Oxfordshire, within about three miles of Chipping Norton, by a game-keeper, who a few weeks afterwards shot a second; the first only was preserved, and fellinto the hands of Mr. Goatley, who was so fortunate as to obtain the Barbary Partridge,as before related. The second specimen was so mutilated by the shot, that it was notthought worthy of preservation. It is singular that no other birds of this species wereobserved either before or since, for had they visited this country in the spring, as it ispossible they did, we might have expected a brood of young ones, which, if they hadsurvived the casualties to which they were exposed, would, by the en

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