THE PAINTED QUAILS. I97 



.. Adult Male. — Differs from the 7nale of E. chi/iensis in having 

 the general colour of the upper-parts much darker and more 

 strongly blotched with black. 



Adult lemale. — Distinguished from \h^ female of E. clii?iensis 

 by having much more black on the upper-parts, while the under- 

 parts are darker and much more strongly barred with black. 



Range. — Philippines, Palawan, Sulu Islands, Borneo, Java, 

 Sumatra, and Australia. 



II. THE NEW BRITAIN PAINTED QUAIL. EXCALFACTORIA 

 LEPIDA. 



Excalfadoria lepida^ Hartlaub, Ber. Ver. Hamb. vii. November 

 (1879); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 254 

 (1893). 



Adult Male — Upper-parts darker than in typical E. chin- 

 ensis, and similar to those of E. lincafa, but easily distin- 

 guished from both these forms by having no trace of chest 

 nut on the wing-coverts, while the under-parts are entirel) 

 slaty-blue, except the lower part of the belly and under tail- 

 coverts, which are chestnut. Total length, 4*8 inches ; wing, 

 27; tail, 0*9; tarsus, 07. 



Adult Female. — We have never had the opportunity of ex- 

 amining the female of this species, but it is probably very 

 similar to that of E. Uiieata. 



Hange. — New Britain, New Ireland, and the Duke of Yoik 

 Group to the East of New Guinea. 



III. ADANSON's PAINTED QUAIL. EXCALFACTORIA ADANSONI. 



Coturnix adansonii^ Verr. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 515 ; 



Sharpe, ed. Layard's Birds S. Afr. p. 606 (1884). 

 Excalfadoria adansojiii, Bonap. ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus. xxii. p. 255 (1893). 

 Coturnix eminiy Reichenow, J. f. O. 1892, p. 18, pi. i, fig. 3 



[male]. 

 Adult Male. — Differs from the male of E. chinensis chiefly in 



