184 Lloyd's natural history. 



chestnut, and the mantle and chest washed with the same 

 colour. It is also somewhat smaller. Total length, 6*3 inches ; 

 wing, 3*9-4; tail, 1*4; tarsus, it. 



Adult Female. — Very similar to the female of C. cotumix, but 

 slightly smaller. 



Range. — South Africa, south of about 15 S. latitude, Mau- 

 ritius,* Madagascar, Comoro Islands, Cape Verd Islands, 

 Canaries, Madeira, and the Azores. 



II. JAPANESE QUAIL. COTURNIX JAPONICA. 



Cofurnix vulgaris jaftonica, Temm. and Schl. Faun. Jap. p. 



103, pi. 61 (1842). 

 Cofurnix japonica, Cass, in Perry's Exp. Jap. ii. p. 227 (1856) ; 

 Prjevalsky, in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 424 (1877); 

 Ogilvie-Grant, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6), x. pp. 167, 170, 171 

 (1892; with woodcut of head of female); id. Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. xxii. pp. 235, 239 (1893), 

 [Plate XVI.) 

 Adult Male. — Differs from the male of C. cofurnix chiefly in 

 having the sides of the head, chin, and throat uniform dull 

 brick-red^ with no trace of the black anchor-shaped mark, and 

 the margins of the flank-feathers mostly rufous and much less 

 spotted with black. Total length, 57 inches; wing, 3*9 ; tail, 

 1*2 ; tarsus, 1*05. 



Adult Female. — Differs from the female of C. cofurnix in 

 having the feathers of the chin and throat elongated and pointed, 

 especially on the sides, and generally margined with rufous ; the 

 chest and sides less spotted with black. 



Young Males have the elongated throat-feathers as in the adult 

 female, and the middle of the throat is suffused with dull brick- 

 red. As the short, rounded, brick-red feathers of the adult are 

 moulted, the elongated feathers disappear. 



* There is a fine adult male of the typical Cape form in the National 

 Collection said to have come from the Mauritius, but the locality may be a 

 mistake. It is said that no indigenous Quail occurs there. 



