234 PHASIANIDJ;. 



Coturnix dactyliscnans, Temm. Pig.et Gall. iii. pp.478, 740(1815); 

 Meyer, Voy. Liv- u. Estlil. p. 1(37 (1815) ; Steph. in Shaw's Gen. 

 Zoul. xi. p. 361, pi. 24 (1819); Sykes, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 162 

 [Deccan] ; Gould, B. IJurupe, iv. pi. 263 [text] (1837) ; Macqill. 

 Brit. B. i. p. 233 (1837); Strickl. P.Z.8. 1850, p. 220; Tristr. 

 Ibis, 1859, p. 36[S. Palestine]; Swinh. Ibis, 1861, pp. 50,260, 

 341 [China] ; Adams, Ibi.% 1864, p. 28 [Egypt & Nubia] ; Filippi, 

 Viay. Pers. i. p. 351 (1865) ; Swink. P. Z. <S'. 1870, p. 602 [N. lat. 

 33°, E. long. 127° 30']; Tacz. J.f. O. 1870, p. 511 [Constantine, 

 Algeria], lC)73, p. 99 ; Roivley, Orn. Misc. i. pi. xii. figs. 3 & 4 

 (1875), ii. p. 91 (1877) ; Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zuol. Fr. ii. p. 154 

 (1877) [Poland]; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 208 [British Kaffiaria & 

 Transvaal] ; Brandt, J. f. O. 1880, p. 241 [St. Petersburg] ; 

 Hovmjer, Zeit. yes. Orn. i. p. 261 (1884) ; Dedit. J. f. 0. 18s5, 

 p. 207 [St. Petersburg] ; Cah. J.f. O. 1885, p. 316, 1886, p. 350, 

 1887, p. 511, 1888, p. 530 [Germanyl; Yerbury, Ibis, 1886, p. 20 

 [Aden]; Kueniy, J.f. O. 1888, p. 257 [Tunis]; Meijer %■ Helm, 

 Zeit. yes. Orn. iv. p. 373 (1888) ; Tacz. Ornis, 1888, p. 487 ; 

 Sharpe, Tr. Limi. Soc. (2) Zool. v. p. 87 (1889) : De la Torre ii. 

 Tschusi, Ornis, 1885, p. 496, 1887, p. 283, 1888, p. 252, 1888, 

 Suppl. p. 263, 1890, p. 140 [Austria, Hungary]; Steen, Voy. 

 Schlesw.-IIolst. p. 82 (1891). 



Perdix cothurnix, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxv. p. 248 (1817). 



Coturnix vaeA\a,,Brehm, Handh. Voy. Deutschl. p. 528 (1831). 



Coturnix minor, Bre/im, Ilandb. Toy. Deutschl. p. 529 (1831). 



Coturnix europieus, Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 344 (1837). 



Urtygion coturnix, Keyserl. u. Bias. Wirbelth. Europa''s, p. 202 

 (1840) ; Linderm.Viiy. Griechenl. p. 125 (i860) ; CullettJ'id. Sekk. 

 Fork Christ. 1868, p. 160; Alston Sr Brown, Ibis, 1873, p. 66 

 [Sumja] ; Danf. 8^- Brown, Ibis, 1875, p. 418 [Transylvania]; 

 Severtz. J. f. O. 1875, p. 181 [Turkestan] ; Radde, Orn. Caucus. 

 p. 354 (1884) ; Radde Sf Walt. Ornis, 1889, p. 87 [Transcaspia]. 



Coturnix vulgaris. Bout. Orn. Dauphin^, p. 72, pi. 43. tig. 1 (1843) ; 

 Tkomps. Nat. Hist. Irel. ii. p. 66 (1850) ; Walters, N. Hist. B. 

 Irel. p. 129 (1853) ; Taylor, Ibis, 1859, p. 50 [Egypt] ; Poioys, 

 Ibis, 1860, p. 238 [Ionian Is.] ; Irby, Ibis, 1861, p. 236 [Oudh, 

 Kumaon]; Tristr. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 449; Tschusi, J.f. 0. 1870, 

 p. 272 [Galicia, Poland] ; Gray, B. West Scot. p. 245 (1871) ; 

 Severtz. Tnrkest. Jevotnie, p. 68 (1873) ; Irby, Orn. Gibraltar, 

 p. 138 (1875) ; Booth, Rouyh Notes, ii. pp. 1,2 (1881-7) ; Lilford, 

 Ibis, 1889, p. 335 [(Jyprus]. 



Coturnix dactylisonans ? v. indicus, Hodys. in Gray's Zool. Misc. 

 p. 85 (1844) ; id. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus. nos. 130, 131. 



Ortyx coturnix, Chenu etDesm. Encycl. Ois. vi. p. 154 (1854). 



Coturnix coturnix, Liclit. Nomencl. Av. p. 84 (1854) ; Sharpe, ed. 

 Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 603 (1884) [part.]; id. Ibis, 1886, 

 p. 489, 1891, p. Ill [Fao] ; id. Second Yark. Miss. p. 122 (1891) ; 

 Grant, Ann. May. N. H. (6) x. pp. 167, 168, 169 (1892). 



Coturnix baldami, Naum.Jide Brehm, Voyelfang, p. 274 (1855). 



Coturnix leucogenys, Brehm, Nau>nau)i.Y>.'288 (1855). 



Turnix coturnix, Salvin, Ibis, 1^51), p. ."153 [Tunis]. 



Coturnix chinensis, Stvinhoe, Ibis, 1S(J0, pp. 63, 358 [Amoy]. 



Synoicus lodoisise *, Verreaux <§• Des Murs, Rev. et Mag. Zool. ] 862, 



* Through the kindness of Dr. G. MartorelH, I have been enabled to 

 examine the type of this supposed species, which is unquestionably merelj a 

 dark form of the Common Quail, and is to C. coturnix what the so-called 

 Sabine's Snipe is to Gallinayo cwlestis — a semi-melanistic variety. 



