Colinus
Genus of birds
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Taxonomy
The genus Colinus was introduced in 1820 by the German naturalist Georg August Goldfuss to accommodate a single species, Perdrix mexicanus, a junior synonym of Tetrao virginianus Linnaeus, 1758, the northern bobwhite, which is the type species by monotypy. The genus name come from the Nahuatl language Zōlin meaning "quail".
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Species
The genus contains four species.
Fossil species
- †Colinus eatoni Shufeldt 1915
- †Colinus suilium Brodkorb 1959
- †Colinus hibbardi Wetmore 1944
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