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times speckled with grey, are deposited with little or no nest, 
at the foot of a tree, or under a tussock among thin scrub. 
Microperdi« and Perdicula, the Bush Quails of Anglo- 
Indians, have a blunt tubercle on each foot in the male. JZ. 
erythrorhyncha of South and West India has the crown and 
cheeks black; a white frontal band continued down the sides of 
the head; brown upper parts, with round buff black-centred spots 
on the back, and black and buff markings on the wings and tail ; 
a white throat bordered by black; and a grey-brown chest and 
rufous breast, with black spots on the former and the flanks. 
The bill and feet are red. In the female the crown is brown, 
the throat and cheeks being rufous. JZ. blewitti of Central India 
is only slightly different; but JZ manipurensis of Manipur has 
a chestnut throat, becoming grey in the hen. These active 
Quail-like little birds haunt the lower mountain-thickets up to 
perhaps eight thousand feet, forming small coveys, feeding on 
seeds and insects, and fashioning a shght nest under some sort 
of cover, to contain from ten to fourteen pointed creamy-brown 
egos, Perdicula asiatica of India and Ceylon is brown above, 
with wavy black dorsal barring, and black and buff markings on 
the wings and tail; the superciliary stripes and throat are 
chestnut with whitish margins; the under parts white with 
black bars; the feet red. The female is uniform buff below. P. 
argoondah of India has dull brick-red in place of the chestnut, 
and a whitish throat in the hen. It has been introduced into 
Mauritius. The habits are much as in Microperdix, but the 
nest 1s sometimes more elaborate, and the reddish-white or olive- 
coloured eggs, with possibly a few faint spots, number from five 
to seven. Jargaroperdix madagascariensis of Madagascar, im- 
ported into Mauritius and Réunion, has a black head with 
reddish-brown sides to the crown, a white stripe from above 
each eye running laterally down the neck, two others from the 
gape down the margin of the throat, rufous and black upper 
parts, with buff bars upon the wings and rump-region, and white 
shaft-streaks except upon the quills. The red-brown chest and 
black under surface are both margined with grey, and the latter 
is spotted with white; the flanks are chestnut, black, and white. 
It is called “Tro-tro,” “ Timpoy,” or “ Tsipoy ” by the Malagasy, 
and inhabits grassy hills, flying rapidly for short distances, and 
laying from about fifteen to twenty eggs. Natives say that if 
