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iv. delegorgue's quail, coturnix delegorguei. 

 Coturnix delegorguei, Deleg. Voy. Afr. Austr. ii. p. 615 (1847); 



Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 243 (1893). 

 Coturnix histrionica, Hartl. Rev. et Mag. Zool. i. p. 495 



(1849); id. Beitr. Orn. W.-Afr. pp. 1, 38, pi. xi. (1852). 

 Coturnix fornasini, Bianc. Spec. Zool. Mosamb. fasc. xvi. p. 



399, pi. i. fig. 2 (1850). 

 Coturnix crucigera, Heugl. Vog. N. O.-Afr. p. 51 (1856). 



Adult Male. — Easily distinguished from the male of C. cotur- 

 nix by having the general colour of the under-parts chestnut, 

 with a large black patch in the middle of the breast. Total 

 length, 6*o inches; wing, 37; tail, 1*3; tarsus, 1. 



Adult Female. — Distinguished from the female of C. coturnix 

 in having the general colour of the under-parts rufous-buff or 

 dull chestnut. 



Range. — Africa, south of about 15 N. latitude; recently ob- 

 tained at Aden. 



Very little is known about this rare Quail, but its habits are 

 probably very similar to those of the common species. 



V. THE AUSTRALIAN QUAIL. COTURNIX PECTORALIS. 



Coturnix pectoralis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 8; id. Syn. B. 



Austr. text and pi. fig. 1 (1837-8) ; North, Nests and Eggs 



B. Austr. p. 289 (1889); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 



xxii. p. 244 (1893). 



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



having the sides of the head, chin, and throat dull brick-red 



(as in C. japonica), but the feathers of the under-parts are 



white with black shaft-stripes, and there is a black patch in the 



middle of the chest. Total length, 7 inches; wing, 4-1; tail, 1-5; 



tarsus, 0*9. 



Adult Female. — Differs chiefly from the female of C. coturnix 

 in having the feathers of the chest and breast longitudinally 

 ba?-red with black near the extremity, the bars being inter- 

 rupted in the middle by a wide buff interspace. 



