244 PHASIA.NIDJ5. 



c, d. 5 ad. sk. Landana, Sept. M. L. Petit [C.]. 



e. S ad. sk. Kattenbella, Benguela, Nov. Sbarpe Coll. 



(*S'a/«). 

 /, y. (S ad. sk. Kingwilliamstowa. Major H. Trevelyau 



[P.]. 

 7i. (S ad. sk. Natal. Tweeddale Coll. 



i-l. S 2 ad. sk. Giibuleweyo, Dec, Jan. {F. W. E. & C. G. Uates, 



Oates). Esqs. [P.]. 



m. 2 ad.sk. IMakaraR., Jan. (Jl 6'. Jamesow). Shelley Coll. 



n, 0. d' 2 ad. sk. Makalaka Country. Dr. Bradsliaw [C.]. 



p. 9 ad. sk. Tete (Sir John Kirk). Livingstone Exped. 



[P.]. 

 q. (S ad.sk. Maliagi,Eq. Africa,Dec. (£"?«;/(). Shelley Coll. 



r. (S ad. sk. Lamii, Sept. F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 8. c? ad. sk. Shelley Coll. 



t. (S ad. sk. Aden. Lieut. 'H. E. Barnes 



[P.]. 



5. Coturnix pectoralis. 



Austral Partridge, Lath. Gen. Hist. viii. p. 308 (1823). 



Coturnix pectoralis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 8 [N. S. Wales]: irl. 



Syn. B. Austr. text & pi. fig. 1 (1837-8) ; Gray, List of B. pt, iii. 



Gall. p. 40 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 507 (1846) ; Gould, B. 



Austr. V. pi. 88 [text] (1848) ; id. Handh. B. Austr. ii. p. 190 



(1865) ; Ramsay, Ibis, 1866, p. 334 [Port Denison] ; Gray, List 



Gallincs Brit. Mus. p. 61 (1867) ; Diyqles, B. Amtr. ii. pt. xv. pi. 95 



[text] (1867) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. *p. 268 (1870) ; Ramsay, P. 



Linn. Sac. N. S. W. i. p. 185 (1876), ii. p. 196 (1877) [distribution] ; 



id. Tab. List Anstr. B. p. 19 (1888); North, N. ^- E. B. 



Austr. p. 289 (1889) ; Grant, Ann. May. N. H. (6) ix. pp. 108, 173 



(1892). 

 Syuoicus australis, Ramsay, Ibis, 1865, p. 86 [Port Denison]. 



Adult male. Upper parts as in the male of C. coturni.r, but 

 somewhat darker, especially on the wing-coyert'S ; superciliary 

 stripes, sides of head, chin, throat, and fore part of neck uniform 

 dull hrick-red, without any black markings; a black patch in the 

 middle of the chest ; feathers on the sides of the chest, breast, and 

 belly white, with a black stripe down the shaft ; sides and flanks 

 very similar to those of G. coturnix. The outer wel)s of the 

 primaries are uniform brown, not barred and marked with buff. 

 Iris hazel ; bill black ; legs and feet pearly yiuous white. Total 

 length 7 inches, wing 4-1, tail 1-5, tarsus -9. 



Adult female. Upper parts darker than in the female of C. 

 coturnix ; sides of the head and throat whitish buff dotted with 

 black ; feathers of the chest and breast with a black curved sub- 

 marginal bar on either side of the shaft, not confluent at the 

 extremity, but separated b}' a wide buff isthmus ; sides of the belly 

 with longitudinal lines and spots of black. Bill olive. 



In younger male specimens the sides of the face and throat are 

 paler, the black patch on the breast is not developed, and the outer 

 edge of the outer web of the primaries is slightly mottled with bufJ. 



Hal). Australia ; Tasmania. 



