196 PHASIANID^. 



1. Margaroperdix madagascariensis. 



La Grande CaiJle de Madagascar, Sonn. Voy. hid. Orient, ii. p. 169, 



pi. 98 (1782), 

 La Caille brune de Madagascar, Sonn. Voy. Ind. Orient, ii. p. 171 



(1782). 

 Madagascar Quail, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. ii. p. 788 (1783) ; id. Gen. 



Hist. viii. p. 310 (1823). 

 Grey-throated Quail, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. ii. p. 788 (1783); id. Gen. 



Hist. viii. p. 300 (1823). 

 Tetrao madagascariensis, Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Insiibr. pt. ii. p. 93 



(1786). 

 Tetrao striatus, Gmel. S. W. i. pt. ii. p. 763 (1788). 

 Tetrao griseus, Gtnel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 764 (1788). 

 Perdix striata. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 654 (1790) ; Vieill. N. Diet. 



d'Hist. Nat. XXV. p. 261 (1817) ; Temm. PL Col. \. pi. 39 [no. 82] 



(1823) ; Schl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 425 [RiSunion, introduced] ; Schl. 



in Pull. (§;• Van Dam. Rech. Madasc. pt. ii. p. 120 (1868). 

 Perdix grisea. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 654 (1790) ; Vieill. N. Diet. 



d'Hist. Nat. XXV. p. 259 (1817). 

 Coturnix striata, Bonn. Tail. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 221, pi. 97. fig. 2 



(1791). 

 Coturnix grisea, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 523, 744 (1815) ; Steph. 



in Shares Gen. Zool. xi. p. 370 (1819). 

 Coturnix perlata, Temm. Piq. et Gall. iii. pp. 470, 739 (1815) ; Stei^h. 



in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 368 ^1819). 

 Coturnix griseus, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 507 (1846). 

 Coturnix strictus, C\iv., Heiigl.Viig. N.O.-Afr. p. 51, no. 534 (1856). 

 Margaroperdix striata, Hartl. Orn. Madagas. p. 69(1861); Maillard, 



Notes Reunion, p. 163 (1862); Roch ^ Neioton, Ibis, 1863, p. 168; 



Newton, Ibis, 1863, p. 454; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 164; Newton, 



P. Z. S. 1865, p. 836; Grandidier, Hist. Madagas., Ois. i. p. 487, 



pis. 199-201 A (1885) ; Sibree, Ibis, 1891, p. 565. 

 Perdix madagascariensis. Gray, List GalUnce Brit. Mus. p. 57 (1867). 

 Perdix (Margaroperdix) madagascariensis, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 267 



(1870). 

 Margaroperdix madagascariensis, Hartert, Kat. Mus. Senckenb. p. 195 



(1891). 



Adult male. Top of the head reddish brown, a line of black 

 feathers down the centre with buff shaft-stripes : back of the neck 

 and mantle dull reddish brown, with whitish shaft-stripes widely 

 edged on either side with black. Scapulars, inner median and 

 secondary coverts, and outer secondaries the same, but with the 

 terminal half of most of the feathers barred on the inner or both 

 webs with rufous bufi' edged with black. Lesser and outer median 

 wing-coverts chestnut (sometimes margined with grey and with 

 grey shaft-stripes). Lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 black mixed with reddish brown and tipped with olive-brown, each 

 feather with a longitudinal white shaft-stripe and transverse bars 

 of rufous or buff on both webs. Primaries, primary-coverts, and 

 secondaries blackish brown, more or less mottled and edged with 

 pale rufous on the outer web. The superciliary stripes, w^hich are 

 continued down the sides of the neck, and two stripes which com- 

 mence at the gape and bound the sides of the throat pure white ; 



