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lutely identical from Bengal, Madras, and Dukhun. In the monsoon, which is the period 
of incubation, they are in pairs; but at other seasons they are frequently found in great 
numbers in the same localities. So abundant are the different species of Quails in 
Dukhun, that in April 1829, five hundred and seventeen brace were killed in nine days 
by four guns. 
B. Mandibuld superiore parim arcuata ; alis rotundatis ; tarsis muticis. 
3. CoruRNIX ERYTHRORHYNCHA. 
Tab. it. 
Cot. supra saturaté brunnea, infra diluté castanea, nigro (preter ventrem medium) unde- 
quaque guttata maculataque, scapularium maculis maximis, pectoris guttis minimis ; 
scapularium tegminumque alarum superiorum albo fasciatarum rhachibus albis, crucem 
efformantibus ; remigum pogoniis evternis rufescenti fasciatis maculatisque ; fronte ni- 
gro; strigd frontali utrinque supra oculum productd guldque albis. 
Fem. Fronte, strigd inde ad utrumque latus ducté, guldque dilute castaneis. 
Trides obscuré flavo-ochracee ; rostrum rubrum. 
Long. corporis 5 unc. ; caud@ 1,5. 
This very handsome bird I have never met with out of the valley of Karleh in the 
Ghats, frequenting the same ground as the black Partridge, Perdix picta. But there 
is a single specimen in the British Museum, from whence I do not know. 
The bill and legs are red, which colour nearly disappears in dried specimens. The 
tongue is the same as in other Quails ; the wides are of a brownish yellow-ochre colour. 
The tarsi are totally destitute of any tubercle or rudimentary spur. The whole crown 
and base of the under mandible are velvet black ; the throat is pure white, and a white 
bar passes across the forehead and is extended over both eyes to the back head. Whole 
upper surface of the body and breast rich chocolate brown, studded with lunules of 
velvet black; the feathers of the scapulars, wing-coverts, and secondaries with large 
patches of black; a yellow line runs down the shaft, which is crossed by one or two 
yellow lines. Wings red brown, spotted and barred with faint chestnut on the outer 
webs. Tail brown, spotted with black and barred with yellow lines. Lower part of the 
breast, belly, and vent rufous ; each feather of the flanks with a broad spot of black, 
and tipped whitish. 
The female differs from the male only in the absence of the black on the head and 
the white bar across the forehead, the latter being rufous; and in the throat, breast, 
and under parts being dilute chestnut, which on the breast is brownish. 
In two males and a female, the intestinal canal was found to vary only from 13 to 
13: inches in length, the proportion to the body in these instances being respectively 
