18. COTURNIX. 245 



a, h. (J 2 ad. sk. Australia. Sir E. Sabine [P.]. 



c. cf ad. sk. Aiisti-iilia. Hardwicke Uequest. 



tl-f. J 2 ad.sk, Somerset, Cape York (Coc/;erf// Sal vin-Godman Coll. 



c^ Thorjie). 



(J. J ad. sk. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 



A. S ad. sk. ^lelhoLirne. Tweeddale Coll. 



i. 2 ad. sk. South Australia. C. D. E. Fortnuni, 



Esq. [P.]. 



/.-, I. S 9- ad. sk. South Australia. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



m-p. cf ad., cf South Australia. Seebohua & Gould 



iinin., et 2ad.sk. Colls. 



(J. 2 ad. sk. Murray lliver. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



/•. (^ ad. sk. Tasmania. Ronald Gunu, Esq. 



^^■'^- 

 s. 2 ad. sk. Tasmania. Lords of tlie Ad- 



miralty [P.]. 



6. Coturnix novse-zealandise. 



Coturnix novre zealaudire, Quoy Sj- Gccim. Voy. Astrol., Zool. i. p. 242, 

 pi. 24. fig. 1 (18:i0) ; Gould, Syn. B. Amtr. text & pi. fig. 2 (18:J7 

 -8) ; Dieffenh. Trav. N. Zeal. ii. p. 19.5 (1843) ; Gmy, Gen. B. iii. 

 p. 507 (1'840) ; EUmnn, Zool. imi, p. 74G8 ; Haaat, Ibis, 1862, 

 p. 102 ; Gray, Ibis, 18ti2, p. 233 [N. & S. Islands] ; id. Lid Gallince 

 Brit. Mus. p. 01 ( 1807 ) ; llaast, J.f. 0. 1808, p. 243; Grm/. lland-l, 

 B. ii. p. 268 (1870) ; Finsch, J. f. O. 1870, p. 334; Mutton, Ibi>i, 

 1870, p. 398 [Auckland; rare]; Potts, Tr. N. Zeal. Inst. ii. art. 

 viii. p. 06 (1870), iii. art. xi. p. 92 (1871); Hutton, Cat. B. N. 

 Zeal. p. 22 (1871) ; Finscli, J.f. O. 1872, p. 168; Potts, Trans. iA. 

 Z. Inst. V. art. xx. p. 185 (1873) ; Puller, B. Neio Zeal. p. 161, pi. 

 (1873) ; Finsch,J.f. O. 1874, pp. 172, 193; S/iarpe, App. Voi/.Frcb. 

 cy Terr., Birds, pp. 10, 27, pi. 8 (1875) ; Buller, Man. B. N. Zeal. 

 p. 43, pi. xix. (1882); id. Hist. B.N. Zeal. i. p. 225, pi. xxiii. 

 (1888) ; Erans, Ibis, 1891, p. 75 ; Grant, Ann. May. N. II. (0) ix. 

 pp. 108, 173 (1892). 



Adalt male. Very similar to C. pectoraJis in general appearance, 

 hut the general colour of the upper j)arts is ^va^mer and more inter- 

 mixed with rufous buff; the sides of the head, chin, and throat only 

 are brighter brick-colour, and there is a black band, as it were the 

 arm of the anchor-mark, on each side of the throat, while the fore 

 part of the neck resembles the chest and middle of the breast, 

 which, in what appears to bo a very old male, are mostly black 

 with irregular bull' spots and markings near the extremity of the 

 margin, while in another adult male specimen these ])arts are black, 

 irregularly barred and tipped with whitish buff. The rest of the 

 underparts are much more thickly marked with black. Iris hazel ; 

 bill black ; legs and feet pale llcsh-brown. Total length 7"6 inches, 

 wing 4-6, tail PS, tarsus 1. 



AiluH female. The upper parts resemble those of the male: on 

 the under surface the plumage is similar to that of the adult femalo 

 of C. pectoralis, but the black bars on the feathers of the chest and 

 breast are conllucnt, or very nearly so, and form W-shaped 

 markings ; on the rest of the underparts the black markings are 

 stronger and more numerous. 



