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COTURNIX DELEGORGUEI DELEGORGUEI Delegorgue 



Coturnix delegorguei Delegorgue, Voy. Af r. Austr., vol. 2, p. 615, 1847 : Oury, 

 i. e. Upper Limpopo River. 



Speci7nens collected: 



Three adult males and one adult female, Tertale, Ethiopia, June 

 8-11, 1912. 



One adult male and three adult females, and one young male, 

 Turturo, Ethiopia, June 15-16, 1912. 



One adult female, Mar Mora, June, 1912. 



Two adult females and one adult male, Nyiro Mountains, south 

 of Lake Kudolf, Ken^^a Colony, July 13, 1912. 



One female, southeast of Lake Stefanie, Kenya Colony, May 12, 

 1912 (native coll.) 



One male (?) Woms River, Kenya Colony, May 27, 1912 (native 

 coll.) 



The colors of the soft parts as recorded by Mearns for two male 

 birds are as follows: Iris hazel brown; bill grayish olive-brown, 

 slightly yellowish at base below ; feet and claws brownish flesh color. 



The last two specimens listed above were collected by one of Mr. 

 Frick's black boys and the sexing is consequently quite unreliable. 

 Mearns was not present when these two birds were taken. 



The Juvenal male collected at Turturo looks as though it was not 

 more than a month old. It is less than half grown in size but is fully 

 feathered. It would appear from this that the breeding season in 

 Ethiopia is around April and May. This agrees with Erlanger's 

 observations, as he found nests of this species during late April and 

 May." 



This young bird resembles the adult female in general, but differs 

 from it in the following particulars: It has the entire top of the 

 head light reddish brown with a median stripe of white; the feathers 

 of the upper parts of the body lack the blackish vermiculation in 

 their brownish areas but otherwise agree with those of the adult, 

 having broad black bars broadly separated by light and dark brown 

 ones; it has the remiges lightly vermiculated with light brownish 

 on the external margins of the outer webs ; the feathers of the rump 

 and the upper tail coverts lack the light transverse bars present in 

 the adult; the underparts are lighter, less rufous, more grayish, the 

 feathers of the throat, breast, and flanks subterminally spotted and 

 barred with fuscous; bill (in dried state) yellow. 



I have seen no juvenal females, but inasmuch as the male described 

 above is generally similar to the adult female, it would seem that the 



''Journ. f. Ornith., 1905, p. 156. 



