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colin|ˈkɒlɪn|
[Given by Hernandez as the ancient Mexican name of the genus Ortyx and its congeners. But the actual Mexican word was çolin or zolin; Molina, Vocab. Mexicano y Castellano (Mexico, 1571) has ‘Çolin, codorniz’.
Colin was thus app. an erroneous form, due to omission of the cedilla in printing. From the work of Hernandez (a 1628) it passed into those of Nieremberg (1635), Willughby (1676), Ray (1678), Buffon, etc. It has no connexion with the Fr. Colin a popular name of a sea-gull (Belon, Hist. Nat. Oyseaux, 1555), with which it has by some been confused.]
The American quail or partridge; also called bob-white; in pl. the various species of the sub-family Odontophorinæ or Ortyginæ, to which this belongs.
[Cf.a1628F. Hernandez Nova plantarum, animalium..Mexicanorum historia (Rome 1651) 16, 22, 42. 1635 J. Eusebius Nierembergius Hist. Nat. (Antwerp) 214, 232.] 1678Ray tr. Willughby's Ornithol. 387, 393 A certain brown bird of the Lake of Mexico is called Acolin, because it is of the bigness of a Quail..Those of New Spain call Quails Colin. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Colin..the name of an American bird, called by most authors a quail, but supposed by Nieremberg to be rather a species of partridge. 1812Smellie tr. Buffon's Nat. Hist. XII. 439 Colins are very common in New Spain. 1881Standard 2 Mar. 5 It [the Act] includes the Colin, and omits the quail. |