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g. Chin and tliroat brick-colour or cliestnut. 

 e'. Throat cluU brick-colour. Size smaller : 



■wing' ca. 4-1 pectoralis J , p. 244. 



/'. Throat bright brick-colour or chest- 

 nut. Size larger : wing ca. 46. . . . novec-zealaticHa t^ , p. 245. 

 //. Chin and throat white or buff, without a 

 black band down the centre. 

 (/'. Chest-feathers without a submargiual 

 black band on either web. 

 a". Ground-colour of the wing-coverts 



sandy buff ; underparts pale buff . coromandellca 5';P-241. 

 V . Ground-colour of the wing-coverts 

 blackish grey ; underparts rufous 



buff or dull chestnut delegorguei $ , p. 243. 



h' . Chest-feathers with a subraarglnal 

 black band on either web. 

 c". Black bands on the feathers of the 

 breast not confluent in the median 

 line but separated by a buff 

 isthmus. Size smaller: wing 



ca. 4-1 ^;ec^wa/?s 5 , p. 244. 



d" . The black bands on the feathers 

 of the breast separated only by 

 the pale shaft. Size larger : wing 

 ca. 4"6 nov(e-zeal(md{(e J , p. 245. 



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IT. 



1. Coiurnix cotnrnix, J ad. 



I. 



II. C. japonica, 2 ^d.* 



Perhaps no species of Game Birds have been more confused, and 

 their changes of plumage less understood, than the Common Quail 

 {Coturniv coturni.v) and its near ally the Japanese Quail 

 (C japonica); and I am pleased to say that I have now at last 

 discovered definite and well-marked characters by which both the 

 males and females of these two species may be readily distinguished, 

 Avhile the intermediate forms are, as I shall presently show, 

 undoubtedly the results of interbreeding. 



CoturnLv japonka is the resident bird found in Japan and China, 

 and sometimes occurs in N.E. India and Burmah, as there are 



* These -woodcuts as well as the following remarks are reproduced from 

 Ann. Mag. N. H. 1892, x. pp. 109-171. 



