11. PKKDICDLA. 201 



Perdicula argoondah, Layard, Ann. Mag. N. II. (2) xiv. p. 107 



(1854) [Ceylon]; Hume, Nesfs ^- E. Ind. B. p. 645 (1873); id. 



Str. F. vii. p. 159 (1878) [Distribution] ; Davidson ^ Wend. Str. 



F. vii. p. 87 (1878) [Deccan]; Hime i^- Marsh. Game B. Ind. ii. 



p. 117, pi. (1879) ; Butl. Cat. B. Sind etc. p. 55 (1879) ; id. Cat. 



B. S. Bombay, p. 69 (1880) ; id. Str. F. ix. p. 423 (1880) [Bombay] ; 



Swi7ik. ^- Barn. Ibis, 1885, p. 131 [Central India] ; Oates, ed. Httme's 



Nests cy E. Ind. B. iii. p. 441 (1890). 

 Cotumix argoonda, Newton, Ibis, 1861, p. 116 [Mauritius, introduced]. 

 Perdicula asiatica, Jerd. (nee Lath.) B. Ind. iii. p. 583 (1863) ; Ball, 



Str. F. ii. p. 427 (1874) [Chota Nagpur P]; Butler, Str. F. iv. p. 7 



(1876) [N. Guzerat]; Fuirb Str. F. iv. p. 262 (1876) [Ahmed- 



nagar and Deccan generally]. 

 Coturnix (Perdicula) argoondali, Gray, List Gallince Brit. Mus. p. 62 



(1867); id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 209 (1870). 

 Ptoek I5ush-Quail, Hume S,- Marsh. Game B. ii. p. 117 (1879). 

 Perdicula argoonda, Davidson, Str. F. x. p. 317 (1882) [W. Khan- 



deish] ; Taylor, Str. F. x. p. 465 (1887) [Manzeerabad, Mysore]. 



Adult male. Differs from the adult male of P. asiatica in having 

 the feathers of the upper parts, especially the back of the head, 

 nape, and mantle, transversely barred with buff and black or grey 

 edged on either side with black ; the primaries and secondaries are 

 barred on both webs with rufous buff; the forehead, lores, and 

 superciliary stripe, and the chin and throat dull brick-red, not 

 margined above by a white band. Iris dark brown ; bill horny 

 brown above, lavender-blue below ; legs and feet orange-red ; tarsi 

 armed with blunt spurs. Total length &5 inches, wing '&3, tail 1"7, 

 tarsus 1. 



Immature males have the upper parts viuaceous brown with 

 irregular wavy black lines and narrow buff shaft-stripes edged on 

 either side with black : as age increases each shaft -stripe becomes 

 constricted into four or five isolated buff patches ; these spread 

 transversely and eventually become united with other pale spots 

 situated on the margins of the feather. Thus without any moult 

 taking place the feathers become transversely barred with buff as in 

 the adult. 



A very yoanrj male has the whole of the underparts buff, washed 

 with vinaceous and indistinctly barred with black. 



Adult female. Has the whole of the upper parts dull vinaceous, 

 with some faint indications of dusky cross-lines and buff' marks; 

 the flight-feathers Imrred on the outer and mottled on the inner 

 ■web with rufous buff; the middle of the chin, throat, and belly 

 whitish, and the rest of the underparts dull viuaceous. 



Immature femahs have tlie upper parts more or less distinctly 

 barred and mottled with buff and black. 



Hab. India; ? Ceylon ; Mauritius (introduced). 



a,b. (J imui. et Kutcb. Hume Coll. 



$ ad. sk. 



c-e. (S 2 ^^- sk. Kattiawar, Feb., June. Cnpt. Llovd [P,]. 



/. $ ad. sk. Godra,PnncbMehals,Sept. Hume Coll. 



ff. cf ad. sk. Deesa, Oct. (E. A. Butler). Hume Coll. 



h. $ ad. sk. Mt. Aboo, May. Hume Coll. 



