Crossword-Solution: COTURNIX 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Common Quail (_Coturnix communis_) All the above-named birds are common in Europe and North Africa except three--the Atlantic chaffinch and the canary which inhabit Madeira and the Canary Islands, and the Azorean bullfinch, which is peculiar to the islands we are considering.

Common quail _Coturnix communis._ But even these fifty-three species by no means fairly represent the amount of _resemblance_ between Britain and {398} Japan as regards birds; for there are also thrushes, robins, stonechats, wrens, hedge-sparrows, sedge-warblers, jays, starlings, swifts, goatsuckers, and some others, which, though distinct _species_ from our own, have the same general appearance, and give a familiar aspect to the ornithology.

THE QUAIL Coturnix communis Arabic, _Salwa_ Plumage--Upper parts brown marked with grey, rufous, and black, a buff line over eye and on crown of head, a semicircular collar of dark brown on throat; lower parts lighter, streaked with black down centre of feathers, beak brown, legs pale warm brown, eyes hazel.

Quail (_Coturnix vulgaris_).] We are almost entirely without particulars as to the habits of these remarkable birds, except that they live in pairs in the depths of the forests of Guiana and North Brazil, and are rarely met with at an altitude of more than 1,200 feet above the level of the sea.

The Chinese quail (_Coturnix_) has a brown back, sprinkled with black spots and white lines, blackish throat and chestnut breast.