Bush- Quails. 1 1 7 



hollow on the ground, often under a 

 bush. The eggs are usually six or seven. 

 They are, as a rule, spotless white, but 

 some few have a very faint tinge of buff 

 or clay-colour. They are oval in shape 

 and fairly glossy. They measure from 

 •95 to I '1 2 in length, and from 78 to "91 

 in breadth. 



The male has the forehead, the anterior 

 part of the crown, the sides of the head 

 and the chin and throat rufous. The 

 space in front of the eye, and a short 

 stripe running from the eye over the ear, 

 are dull white. The remaining upper 

 plumage, closed wings and tail, are greyish 

 brown, closely and coarsely cross-barred 

 with pale rufous buff. Both webs of all 

 the quills of the wing are mottled and 

 barred with rufous. Occasionally there 

 are a few very small black blotches on 

 the quills next the body. The whole 

 lower plumage from the throat downwards 

 is barred with black and very pale rufous 

 buff, or yellowish white, the black bars 

 disappearing on the lower part of the 

 belly. Some of the feathers of the upper 

 plumage have pale shafts, but there are 

 no streaks, as in the Jungle Bush-Quail. 



The female has nearly the whole 

 plumage a warm pinkish brown, the 



