606 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
purchased a specimen out of a collection made near Swellendam. 
Captain Trevelyan reports it from Kingwilliamstown, and says, “ The 
first Quail of this species I saw was in the last part of 1870, or the 
beginning of 1871. I did not again see them till the early part of 
1874, when I killed some six or seven brace.” Mr. Ayres has met 
with the species in the Transvaal on one occasion, and they were 
shot by him in the open glades along the banks of the Mariqua 
River, the only place where he had met with them. Their flight 
resembled that of C. cotwrniz. The same gentleman observed them 
on the Makara River during Mr. Jameson’s expedition, on the 22nd 
of January, where they were plentiful and breeding. Mr. Chapman 
obtained it at Lake N’gami, and Mr. Andersson met with it in 
Ondonga on the 30th of March, 1867. Senor Anchieta has also 
procured it at Capangombe, and on the River Chimba in the 
interior of Mossamedes. 
Above, fuscous cinereous, with black and white transverse markings; 
feathers of the back and the wing-coverts marked with longitudinal 
white patches, bordered and centred with black ; top of head and 
back of neck brown; eyebrows, and a little mark on the top of head, 
white; a short band between the nostrils and the eye, and others 
beneath the eyes, black; throat and fore-part of neck white; the 
centre spot black, and anchor-shaped; the greater part of chest 
black ; belly intense rufous, the larger spots black ; under tail coverts 
rufous; under the wings white; bill black; legs yellow; irides 
yellow. Length, 7’ 2‘"; wing, 3” 8’. 
Fig. Hartl. Beitr. Orn. W. Afr. pl. 11. 
582. Corurnrx apAMsontt, Ver. Adamson’s Quail. 
The only record, as far as we are aware, of the occurrence of this 
species in South Africa has been supplied us by our friend Captain 
Trevelyan, who shot one near Kingwilliamstown in July, 1876, and 
informs us that two others were killed there about the same time. 
It is a West African species, hitherto known from Gaboon and the 
Gold Coast. 
The following is a translation of the eee given by Dr. 
Hartlaub in his “ Ornithologie West-Afrikas :’ 
Upper surface leaden grey, the head varied weit brownish ; 
cheeks white, surrounded by black; chin and throat circumscribed 
black ; plumes of the rump, leaden blue, with the shafts glossy grey ; 
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