12 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS." 



Geneta. 



a^. Much smaller; length less than 150 mm.; head without crest or comb; spurs 



absent Excalfactoria (p. 12) 



a-. ]\Iuch larger; length more than 350 mm.; head crested or with a comb; spurs 

 present in the male. 

 b^. No crest but with a fleshy comb; tail-coverts without ocelli; male with one 



pair of spurs Gallus (p. 13) 



b". No comb but with an elongated crest; longer tail-coverts ocellated; male 

 Avith two or three pairs of spurs Polyplectron (p. 16) 



Genus EXCALFACTORIA Bonaparte, 1856. 



This genus resembles Turnix but is distinguished from it b}' having 

 a hind toe; the male is much handsomer than the female; the tail has 

 but eight short rectrices which are hidden by the long upper coverts. 



2. EXCALFACTORIA LINEATA (Scopoli). 

 ISLAND PAINTED QUAIL, 



Oriolus lineatus Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), 2, 87. 



Excalfactoria llncata Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 22, 253; Shabpe, 

 Hand-List (1899), 1, 32; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1901), 1, 48, pi. 4, 

 fig. 2; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 7. 



Pu-gong bu-quet, ti-co ti-co, Manila; pu-gong pa-rang, Calapan, Mindoro. 



Basilan {McGregor) ; Batan (McGregor) ; Bongao {Everett) ; Calamianes 

 {Bourns d M'orcester) ; Cebu {Bourns d Worcester) : Lubang {McGregor) ; Luzon 

 {Heriot, Whitehead, McGregor); Masbate {Bourns & Worcester); Mindanao 

 {Koch d Schadenberg, Clemens) ; Mindoro {McGregor, Porter) ; Negros {Layard, 

 Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; Palawan {Whitehead, Bourns d Worcester, 

 White); Panay {Bourns d Worcester); Samar (Whitehead); Sibuyan (Mc- 

 Gregor); Siquijor (Celestino) ; Suhi (Guillemard) ; Ticao (McGregor). Suma- 

 tra, Java, Borneo, Australia. 



Adult male. — Upper parts dark brown; most of the feathers with light 

 shaft-lines, large subtenninal black blotches, and some black bars; the 

 black markings heaviest on lower back; forehead, circumorbital area, 

 sides of neck, breast, and flanks slate-blue; chin, upper throat, and lower 

 half of face black ; throat patch bordered posteriorly by a wide, crescentic, 

 white patch which is bordered posteriorly by a narrow black band; a 

 white included patch on side of face from lower mandible to below ear, 

 the anterior end of which is pointed; a narrow white line from below 

 nostril to eye; a patch of rich chesnut covering middle of abdomen and 

 lower breast; wings sandy brown; coverts and secondaries vermiculated 

 with darker brown ; tail chestnut ; upper tail-coverts chestnut mixed with 

 slate-blue. Iris deep red; bill dark blue, black along upper part; legs 

 dark yellow; nails brown. Length about 135. Five males measure: 



