184 Allen's naturalist's library. 



chestnut, and the mantle and chest washed with the same 

 colour. It is also somewhat smaller. Total length, 6 '3 inches ; 

 wing, 3*9-4; tail, 1*4; tarsus, i-i. 



Adult Female. — Very similar to the female of C. coturnix^ but 

 slightly smaller. 



Eange. — South Africa, south of about 15° S. latitude, Mau- 

 ritius,* Madagascar, Comoro Islands, Cape Verd Islands, 

 Canaries, Madeira, and the Azores. 



II. JAPANESE QUAIL. COTURNIX JAPONICA. 



Cottirnix vulgaris japonica^ Temm. and Schl. Faun. Jap. p. 



103, pi. 61 (1842). 

 Coturtiix jap07iica^ Cass, in Perry's Exp. Jap. ii. p. 227 (1856) ; 



Prjevalsky, in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 424 (1877); 



Ogilvie-Grant, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6), x. pp. 167, 170, 171 



(1892; with woodcut of head of female); id. Cat. B. 



Brit. Mus. xxii. pp. 235, 239 (1893). 

 {Plate XVI.) 

 Adult Male. — Differs from the male of C. coturnix chiefly in 

 having the sides of the head, chin, and throat uniform dull 

 brick-red, with no trace of the black anchor-shaped mark, and 

 the margins of the flank-feathers mostly rufous and much less 

 spotted with black. Total length, 57 inches; wing, 3-9; tail, 

 1-2 ; tarsus, i"o5. 



Adult Female. — Differs from the female of C. cofurtiix in 

 having the feathers of the chin and throat elongated a?id pointed^ 

 especially on the sides, and generally margined with rufous ; the 

 chest and sides less spotted with black. 



Young Males have the elongated throat-feathers as in the adult 

 female, and the middle of the throat is suffused with dull brick- 

 red. As the short, rounded, brick-red feathers of the adult are 

 moulted, the elongated feathers disappear. 



* There is a fine adult male of the typical Cape form in the National 

 Collection said to have come from the Mauritius, but the locality viay be a 

 mistake. It is said that no indigenous Quail occurs there. 



