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Sikhim, and along our eastern frontier 

 down to Northern Tenasserim. 



Colonel Prjevalsky remarks of this 

 Quail : — " This bird is easily distinguished 

 from the European one by its voice. We 

 found it in South-East Mongolia, Ordos, 

 Kansu, and about Koko-nor, breeding, 

 sometimes numerously, and at others 

 abundantly ; and from the end of March 

 to the middle of summer the call-note of 

 the males can be heard daily, consisting 

 of some deep, hollow sounds, several 

 times repeated in quick succession. In 

 the Yellow River valley they winter in 

 great numbers, and sometimes stop for 

 the cold season also in South-East Mon- 

 golia. In Kansu they occur in the 

 steppes, but avoid the narrow mountain - 

 valleys. We found it common in Ussuri- 

 country, where it principally keeps to the 

 plains and steppes. It arrives there in 

 spring, about the end of March or early 

 in April, and leaves again about Septem- 

 ber or October ; a few, however, remain 

 here to winter. The spring call-note of 

 the males is to be heard until the middle 

 of August; and the first young were 

 found by us on the 29th of May." 



This species has a vv^ide distribution, 

 being found in Japan, Eastern Asia and 



