THE PAINTED QUAILS. I97 



Adult Male. — Differs from the male of E. chinensis in having 

 the general colour of the upper-parts much darker and more 

 strongly blotched with black. 



Adult Female. — Distinguished from the female of E. chinensis 

 by having much more black on the upper-parts, while the under- 

 pays are darker and much more strongly barred with black. 



Range. — Philippines, Palawan, Sulu Islands, Borneo, Java, 

 Sumatra, and Australia. 



II. THE NEW BRITAIN PAINTED QUAIL. EXCALFACTORIA 

 LEPIDA. 



Excalfactoria lepida^ Hartlaub, Ber. Ver. Hamb. vii. November 

 (1879); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 254 

 (1893). 



Adult Male. — Upper-parts darker than in typical E. chin- 

 ensis, and similar to those of E. lineata, but easily distin- 

 guished from both these forms by having no trace of chest 

 nut on the wing-coverts, while the under-parts are entirel) 

 slaty-blue, except the lower part of the belly and under tail- 

 coverts, which are chestnut. Total length, 4*8 inches ; wing, 

 27 ; tail, 0-9; tarsus, 07. 



Adult Female. — We have never had the opportunity of ex- 

 amining the female of this species, but it is probably very 

 similar to that of E. lineata. 



Range. — New Britain, New Ireland, and the Duke of York 

 Group to the East of New Guinea. 



III. ADANSON'S PAINTED QUAIL, EXCALFACTORIA ADANSONI. 



Cotumix adansonii, Verr. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 515; 



Sharpe, ed. Layard's Birds S. Afr. p. 606 (1884). 

 Excalfactoria adansonii, Bonap. ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus. xxii. p. 255 (1893). 

 Cotumix emini y Reichenow, J. f. O. 1892, p. 18, pi. 1, fig. 3 



[male]. 

 Adult Male — Differs from the male of E. chinensis chiefly in 



