COTURNICINZE. 315 
and some faint cross lines of the same; primaries brown, the 
outer webs barred with dark rufous; tail brown with black spots, 
and barred with narrow pale yellow lines; beneath, the chin 
is pure white, bordered by black ; the rest of the lower parts are 
rufous, passing into olive-brown on the sides of the neck, and 
with afew spots of black on the breast, increasing in size on the 
sides of the neck and breast ; feathers of the flanks with large spots, 
of deep black tipped with white. 
The female ditters in having the chin, supercilivm, forehead, 
and face rufous in place of white, and the head is brown instead 
of being black. 
The Painted Bush Quail is a common and permanent resident, 
all along the Sahyadri Range, and several other portions of the 
Deccan; it does not occur in Sind, Guzerat, or Rajputana. 
Its mode of nidification does not differ from that of the other 
Bush Quails. 
Sus-FAMILY, Coturnicine. 
Wings pointed, long; bill moderate; tarsi not spurred; of 
small size. Sexes differ somewhat in coloration. 
Genus, Coturnix, Brisson. 
Bill somewhat slender, straight or slightly curved; tarsi with- 
out spurs; tail very short, rounded and _ soft, concealed by the 
upper tail-coverts; wings lengthened and pointed, the first and 
second quills longest. 
Coturnix communis, Bonn. 
§29.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 586; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 7; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 423; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 215; 
Game Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 1383; Swinhoe and Barnes, 
Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 131. 
THE LARGE GREY QUAIL. 
Length, 7'1 to 8°62; expanse, 13:0 to 147; wing, 40 to 4°55; 
tail, 16 to 2:25; tarsus, 0:9 to 1:15; bill from gape, 0°6 to 0°73; 
weight, 3:2 to 4°62 oz. 
Bill very variable, in color blackish, dusky horny-brown, dull. 
pale bluish, &c. ; irides brown ; legs and feet pale fleshy. 
Male, head brown, with pale edgings to the feathers, and a 
central pale line; eye-brows, cheeks, and lores whitish, with the 
ear-coverts partially brown; the upper plumage brown, each 
feather of the back, scapulars, rump and tail having on one side 
of the pale yellow shaft, a fine black patch, and some pale cross: 
striz ; wing-coverts greyish-brown, with narrow streaks and 
bars of the pale yellowish, black bordered ; primaries dark-brown, 
with pale rufous spots and bars on the outer webs; beneath, 
the chin is dull white; the throat rufous-brown with a double: 
blackish or brown band or collar, separated by some yellowish- 
