192 ALLEN S naturalist's LIBRARY. 



is about four ounces and three-quarters, and its flesh is deli- 

 cious." 



Nest. — Made of dry grass, &c., and placed on the ground 

 among rank grass bordering running water. 



Eggs. — From ten to eighteen in number ; pale bluish-white, 

 finely dotted all over with light brown. Average measurements, 

 1-17 by 0*92 inch. 



II. RAALTEN's SWAMP-QUAIL. SYNCECUS RAALTENI. 



Ferdix raaltenii, Miill. and Schl. Land- en Volkenk. p. 158 



(1839-44). 

 Coturnix raalteni, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 486. 

 Sy?toecus raalteni^ Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 249 ■ 



(1893)- 



Adult Male. — Differs chiefly from the most adult male of S. 

 australis in having the sides of the head, chin, throat, and rest 

 of under-parts rufous^ with traces of dark cross-bars on the 

 sides and flanks. As in less mature examples of S. australis^ 

 the younger male has the white shafts of the feathers of the 

 upper-parts well marked, and the black bars on the under-parts 

 stronger and extending over the breast and belly. Total length, 

 7-4 inches; wing, 3'5-3'8 ; tail, i-5-r7 ; tarsus, 0-95. 



Adult Female. — Distinguished from the male by having thq 

 upper-parts blotched and marked with black, and the shaft- 

 stripes wider and more distinct, while the under-parts are more 

 strongly barred with black. From the female of S. australis it 

 differs in having the chest pale dull rufous, with the black bars 

 nearly obsolete. 



Range.— Islands of Timor and Flores. 



III. THE GREY SWAMP-QUAIL. SYNCECUS PLUMBEUS. 



Syncecus plumbeus, Salvador!, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. (2), xiv. 

 p. 152(1894). 

 Through the kindness of Count Salvador!, I have had the 

 pleasure of examining the type of this species, which appears 



