14. THE GREY QUAIL. 



Cotiiniix cotii7'ftix, (Linn^us). 



Sides of the body streaked. 

 Outer web of the quills of the wing 

 marked with rufous. 



MALE :— Throat dark brown or blackish. 



FEMALE :— Throat pale buff and without 

 any lengthened and pointed feathers on 

 the sides of the chin and upper throat. 



Vernacular Names -.—Bhater, Burra 

 Bhater, Gagus Bhater, Upper India; 

 ButtairOy Butieyra, Sind ; Builree, 

 Lower Bengal ; Soi^ol, Manipur ; 

 Botah Szirrai, Assam ; Lowa, Ratna- 

 giri ; Bz'ir-ganja, Bih'-ganji, Gilr-ganj, 

 Poena, Satara, etc. ; Bi'trli, Belgaum ; 

 Gogari-yellichi, Telugu ; Peria-ka-deh , 

 Tamil ; Si^ale haki, Canarese. 



The Common or Grey Quail is chiefly a 

 winter visitor to India, being extremely 

 common at that season in the northern 

 half of the peninsula and becoming rarer 

 towards the south. Hitherto it has not been 

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