TETRAONID^l. 249 



This species is not uncommon in Middle and Southern 

 Damara Land. 



During the year 1865 countless numbers of these 

 Quails arrived in the neighbourhood of Cape Town ; 

 whilst much of the rest of the- Colony, which had suffered 

 severely from drought, was nearly denuded of these birds. 



296. CoturniX Delegorgliei, Deleg. Harlequin Quail. 



Coturnix histrionica, Hartlaub's Beitr. z. Orn. Westafr. pi. 11. 



Layard's Cat. No. 532. 



Coturnix Dekgorguei, Finsch & Hartlaub's Vogel Ost-Afrika's, 

 p. 591. 



I killed this bird for the first time at Ondonga on 

 the 30th of March, 1867 ; Mr. Chapman obtained it at 

 Lake Ngami. 



The iris in this species is the colour of new leather 

 when well browned by exposure ; the bill is nearly black, 

 but the point of the upper mandible is light horn- 

 colour ; the legs and toes are dusky. 



297. Turnix lepurana (Smith). Kurichane Hemipode. 



Hemipodius lepurana, Smith's Zool. of S. Africa, pi. 16. 

 Turnix lepurana, Strickland & Sclater, Birds Damar., Contr. Om. 

 1852, p. 158. 



Layard's Cat. No. 534. 



Finsch & Hartlaub's Vogel Ost-Afrika's, p. 593. 



This species is not uncommon in Great Namaqua 

 Land during the rainy season ; but I have never found 

 many of these birds near together, and it is rarely that 

 more than one of them is flushed at a time. Their 

 favourite resorts are rank grassy spots in the neighbour- 



