314 PERDICIN 
permanent resident and breeds from August to November, 
making a loose nest, generally in a slight depression on the ground 
sheltered by a low bush or tuft of coarse grass. The eggs, six or 
seven in number, are moderately broad ovals in shape, pointed 
towards one end; they are white, tinged with excessively pale cafe- 
au-lait color. They measure 1:02 inches in length by about 0°84 
inches in breadth. . 
The following remarks by Mr. Hume will aid in discriminating 
this species from the preceding :— 
“The adults of both sexes (and, I believe, most of the young 
also) may be distinguished at a glance by two characters. 
“The bright chesnut hue of the chin and throat of the Jungle 
Bush Quail, which contrasts equally strongly with the white, 
black-barred, lower surface of the male, and the dull rufous of the 
same parts in the female. In the Rock Bush Quail, the chin 
and throat are dull rufous, the chin often being, especially in the 
females, whitish, and in these latter the throat is unicolorous with 
the breast. 
“The long well marked yellowish-white superciliary stripe 
which, in the Jungle Bush Quail, begins in males at the 
nostrils, and in females a little further back, and in both 
runs over the eyes and ear-coverts right down to the nape, 
averaging in males 115, and in females 0°9 in length. In the 
Rock Bush Quail the supercilium is by no means well marked, 
very narrow, and just extends to the ear-coverts ; in many speci- 
mens it is scarcely traceable. Moreover, the supercilium, such 
as it is, inthe Rock Bush Quail, is immediately above the eye 
and ear-coverts; whereas in the Jungle Bush Quail, the long 
supercilium is separated from both eyes and ear-coverts by a 
narrow band of the same rich chesnut as the throat.” 
Genvus, Microperdix, Gould. 
Bill red and more slender than in Perdicula, and the male 
wants the tarsal tubercle, otherwise as in Perdicula. 
Microperdix erythrorhynchus, Sykes. 
828.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. IT, p. 584; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 423; Game Birds of India, Vol. 
IT, p. 128. 
THE PAINTED BusH QUAIL. 
Length, 6°6 to 7'5; expanse, 10 to 113; wing, 3 to 3°53; tail, 
15 to 2; tarsus, 0°97 to 11; bill from gape, 06 to 0°7; weight, 
2} to 3,'5 02. 
Bill red; irides brown or yellowish-brown; legs and feet 
red. 
Male, forehead, lores and crown of head, black ; a white frontal 
band continued as a supercilium over each eye; upper plumage 
rich olive-brown, with black lunules ; scapulars, wing-coverts and 
secondaries with large patches of black; the shaft pale yellow, 
