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as 2°60 to 1 and 2°70 to 1. Canal wide; duodenum barely wider ; from the insertion 
of the ceca to the rectum 1-8, to 1,4, inch. Ceca thick, club-shaped at the end, vary- 
ing in length in different individuals from 1,%, to 1-4, inch, and not exactly of the same 
Jength in the same individual. Ceca full of green pulp. Liver of two lobes, not equal 
in size ; the left lobe with a deep fissure, and the right lobe ending in a long rounded 
process, as in the Perdix picta, or black Partridge, a peculiarity not observed in other 
birds of the Tetraonide, excepting the Hemipodius pugnax. I did not observe a gall- 
bladder, but traces of gall. Spleen ovate, ;*; inch long, situated on the right side of 
the proventriculus at its junction with the gizzard. Stomach oval, compressed, mus- 
cular, digastric muscles ;*, inch thick, constituting a true gizzard. Testes very small, 
oblong, +45 inch long only. Eggs numerous and very minute. 
Stomach full of grass seeds, with a few seeds of Ervum Lens. 
Length of the bird, inclusive of the tail, 6,4; to 6, inches : tail 1,25 to 148; inch: 
bill to the gape +2 to +3 inch; height at the nostrils .2, to =4, inch: tibie 1,4, inch : 
tarsi 1 inch: middle toe +8, inch, nail =, inch; hind toe and nail -2, inch, rarely 
touching the ground. 
C. Mandibulé superiore valdé arcuata ; alis rotundatis ; tarsis tuberculatis: 
4. Corurnrx ARGOONDAH. 
Rock Quail of Dukhun. 
Tab. II. 
Cot. supra rufescenti-brunnea, fasciis angustis dilute ferrugineis notata ; infra sordide alba, 
fasctis equidistantibus nigris ; fronte mentoque ferrugineis ; strigd superciliari rufes- 
centi-albidd. 
Foem. Infra dilute ferruginea ; fascie nulle. 
Trides fusco-rubre ; rostrum nigrum. 
Long. corporis 5 unc. ; caude 1-5. 
There are so many trifling variations in the markings of the plumage of the upper 
surface of this Bird, that it is difficult to fix upon the exact type. The male is readily 
distinguished by the numerous transverse narrow black bars upon the breast ; but the 
young males and the females want these bars, and vary so much in the markings on 
the back, that with those disposed to manufacture species from plumage alone, the 
eleven specimens before me from Dukhun would furnish at least four new species. 
This Bird affords another instance of the insufficiency of the received generic characters 
of Coturnix to embrace all the species of Quail. It has a bill higher than broad ; and 
in respect to the common Quail and Partridge the bill is comparatively short: it should 
therefore be neither Quail nor Partridge. It has the rounded wing, and agreeably to 
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