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 1 1 . Alectura lathami purpureicollis. 



TaUgallus purpureicollh Le Souef, Ihis. 1898. p. 51 : Cape York, Queensland. 



Pnrple-wattlcd Brnsli Turkey. 

 Matliews, IlatxHi-st No. !S. 

 Range : North Queensland. 



F.\MII.Y PHASIANIDAE. 

 Genus COTUBNIX. 



Cotocwi'a; Bonnaterre, Tail. Kncyrl. Mflliod. Orii. i. p. I.xxxvii. 1791. 

 Type (by tantonymy) : C. cnturnix Linue. 



12. Coturnix pectoralis pectoralis. 



Coturiiix pecloralis Gould, Synnpx. Biril.'< Aiistr. pt. ii. pi. 29. 18:^7 : New South Wales. 



Eastern Stubble Quail. 



Mathews, Handlist No. 9 (pars). 



Range : Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania. 



1:5. Coturnix pectoralis praetermissa subsp. n. 



Western Stubble Quail. 

 Mathews, Handlist No. 9 (pars). 



DifFers from C. p. pectoralis in its much darker coloration above and below, 

 especially on the head and breast. 

 Type: West Australia No. 13. 

 Range : West Australia. 



14. Coturnix australis australis. 



Penllx austmlh Latham, Inclfj- Ornith. Siippl. p. Ixii. 1801 : New Sonth Wales. 



Eastern Brown Quail. 

 Mathews, Handlist No. 10 (pars). 

 Range : New Sonth Wales, Victoria, South Australia. 



Sijnoiois sordidits Gould, Prnr. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1847. p. 33 : South Australia. 

 Is unknown to me. 



lo. Cotui'nix australis diemenensis. 



Synoicui diemenensix Gould, Proc. Zool. Sm:. (Loud.) 1847. p. 33 (1847) : Tasmania. 



Tasmauian Brown Quail. 

 Mathews, Handlist No. 11. 

 Range : Tasmania. 



10. Coturnix australis cervina. 



Synoicm cerrinus Gould, llnndh. Birds Andr, ii. p. 19.0. 1805: Port Eisington, Northern 

 Territory. 



Northern Brown Quail. 



Mathews, Handlist No. 13 (pars). 



Range : Northern Territory, North Qneensland. 



