IS. COTURNIX. 0J1 



3. Coturnix coromandelica. 



Tetrao coidmandelicus, 6-',/(e/. ;S. .Y. i. pt. ii. p. 704 (178S) 

 1 erdix r.n,„ian,lelica, Lath. Ind. 0/-«. ii. p! 6.54 (1790) ;' T/e,?/ N 

 Did. dlList. Nat. XXV. p. 200 (1817). V ^^ > *- '«"■ ^> ■ 



Coturnix coromanclelica, Bonn. Tabl. Encyd. Meth. i p. 221 a79n • 



p. 007 (1846); ul. Cat. Hod^s. ed. i. p. 128 (1840)- Goidd R 



18bl,p.2../ [Oudh, IVLimaon ; Jerd. B. Ind ili. p. .588 (180.:j) • 



B vrJo^n^yi^ %^^^ [fearabbur take]; if^;;,., Xc.ts 4- U. Ind 

 JS. P- -f-JOaS/S) ; lf«me, 6Y;-. F. in. p. 178 (187-5) [Pe-nil • Ball 



[Mt Aboo N. Giuerat]; i^,„>i. ,S^,, f. iv. p. 262 (1876) fDec- 



Vidal, S/i: 



Hume ^- Marsh. Game B. Lid. ii. p. I.50 pj (1879) 

 & r.f P^^^f ^V^- ^^°^'^'^"^ ^^^"^/^'■."'Sy;. F. ix. p. 42.3 (1880) ; 

 [Lucknow]; Oafes, Str. F x. p. 2.3(5 1882) [Tbavetmvo & 

 Bassem]- Davidson, Sfr. F x. p^ 317 (iW) fw KbanSil 

 ^-J'^nS^r. Fx p. 411 (1883? [Xilgiiris/wUadTS S ; 

 0«<. B Bunnahn p. 333 (1883) ; Swinh. ^- Barnes Ibis, 1885 

 p l.,2 [Central India] ; Hume, Str. F xi. p. 310 (1888) [Assam 

 Cbit agong Mampur] ; Oates, ed. Hume's Nests Sc E. Ind B^i 

 0892?. ^ ^' ^''""'' ^nn.3Iag. N H. (0) ix. pp. 1087 "172 

 Coturnix textills, Temm.Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 512, 742 (181.5) ; SfenJ, 



Aat. Lit)., Orn. iv. p. 116, pi. viii. (1834). -' 



lerdix textilis, 7V,«;«. PI. Col. v. pi. 40 [no. 3-5] (1824) ; Drapie- 



Diet. Set. Aat. viii. p. 429, pi. ti-' 1 (184-') ^J>"P>e., 



rerdixohvacea /?«c/.«« P. Z. S. 1831, p. 123 [India], 

 tot mux textihs?, y. pluviali.s, Ilod^,. in Grays zLl. Mise. p. 8-5 



(I'^ij) ; id. Icon. med. in Brit. .Viis. nos. 119, l->0 



^i" 5 wTfirrr '^''" 1'.^ •'''^', -^^ " «^'^^''' ^«'- '^^«"''«' ^- ^- ^'"■">", 

 p. lol (l»/6) [LpperEui-mab]. ' 



^''f"1\male. Differs from the male of C. fo<«rn;.r chiefly in havin.' 

 the black pattern on the throat and neck more stron-Iv marked • a 

 large black patch covering the mi<ldle of the chest and breast • the 

 leathers ot the sides and Hanks black, widely margined on the sides 

 with white or buff, and the outer webs of the primaries uniform 

 Drown, never barred and marked with rufous or buff. Iris brown • 

 bill dark horny : legs and feet pale flesh. Total length 5 iucheo' 

 wing -i-o, tail 1-2, tarsus 1-05. ' 



Adidt female is very similar to the female of C. cotur.iiv, but may 

 be at once distinguished by Laving uo bull' or rufous bars or 



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