COTURNIX DELEGORGUEI. 605 
North Africa and the South of Europe in the summer months? If 
so, how is it that the thousands of birds that visit India in the cold 
weather do not breed there? In one case it looks as if they bred 
twice in the year, and in the other as if they only bred once.” 
Mr. Ayres states that in Natal a few of these birds are to be “‘found 
all the year round, nesting in the open country amongst the thick 
grass, but the greater part migrate here in large numbers during 
the autumn, in the months of April, May, and June, leaving again in 
the early spring.” The Quail is found, according to the same gentle- 
man, but not plentifully, in the vicinity of Potchefstroom. Mr. Barratt 
writes :—“ I have shot this Quail in the Chalumna district, British 
Kaffraria, where it arrived in great numbers about the end of 
August. In the Transvaal it is widely distributed. I have shot it 
near Pretoria, Rustenburg, Nazareth, and many other places. I 
received my last from the Marico district.” 
Mr. Andersson states that the Quail is not uncommon in middle 
and southern Damara Land, but it has not occurred to Senor Anchieta 
in South-West Africa. 
Above brown, variegated with grey and black; the shafts of many 
of the feathers with a broad white stripe; head dark brown, with a 
light buff stripe down the centre, and over each eye; throat and 
chest, deep rufous ; the former in the male with a black patch down 
the centre, the latter with faint-whitish lines down the shafts of the 
feathers; flanks longitudinally richly variegated with dark brown, 
black, and pale buff; belly light yellowish’ brown, immaculate. 
Length, 5” 8”; wing, 3” 9” ; tail, 1” 7”. 
Fig. Dresser, B. Hur. vii. pl. 476. 
581. Corurnrx peLucorcuEl, Deleg. Harlequin Quail. 
Ooturniz histrionica, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 275. 
As was the case with Turturena delegorguti, the French traveller 
who discovered that bird and the present one, appears to have been 
determined that there should be no question as to the fact of both. 
these birds bearing the names of their discoverer, so he took the 
precaution of naming them both after himself, a proceeding happily 
almost unique in the annals of ornithology. 
In the colony it appears to be principally found in the eastern 
districts, as several specimens have been obtained near Grahamstown, 
and we have also received it from Natal. Count Castelnau likewise 
