OPHRYSIA. 563 



p. 545 ; id., Str. F. vii. p. 156 ; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds ii. p. 117. 

 The ROCK BUSH QUAIL. 



Upper plumage brownish rufous, the feathers minutely freckled and lineated 

 with black and tawny ; feathers of the head and neck tipped with black ; 

 some of the scapulars and wing coverts with irregular black blotches ; 

 primaries dark brown, with tawny bars on their outer webs ; tail with the 

 lateral feathers also barred ; supercilium from the base of the bill over the eye 

 bordered by dusky, and another shorter one from the gape ; cheeks, sides of 

 the face, chin and throat bright rufous ; under surface of the body, including 

 the sides of the neck white, with numerous cross bars of black ; flanks tinged 

 with rufous ; also the lower belly and thigh coverts. Bill dark slaty ; irides 

 brown ; orbits pale ; legs red. 



Length. 6 % 7 to 7^25 inches; wing3*i to 3*5; tail 1*5 to 1*9; tarsus 0*75 

 to TO; bill from gape 0*5 to O'6j. 



Halt. The Punjab, N.-W. and Central Provinces, Central India, Raj- 

 pootana, Eastern Madras districts, Coimbatore, Mysore, throughout the 

 Deccan, in Bundelkund, Deesa, the Panch Mahals, Kutch, Sambhur Lake, 

 Jodhpore, and Mount Abu, but not in Sind nor anywhere in Lower Bengal. 

 Affects rocky hills with low scrub jungle. Breeds from August to December 

 and again in March. Eggs. 6 7, of the type of the Jungle Bush Quail. 



Gen. Ophrysia. Gray. 



General characters the same as those of Perdicula. 



1233. Ophrysia SUperciliOSa C7- E. Gray), Hume, Str. F. vii. 

 p. 434 ; id. and Marsh*, Game Birds ii. p. 105 ; Gould, B. Asia, pi. 

 The MOUNTAIN QUAIL. 



Lores, chin, throat and sides of the face and ear coverts deep black ; fore- 

 head and a broad stripe above and behind the eye silvery grey, the feathers of 

 the forehead paler shafted at base, and darker on the shaft towards the tip ; 

 hind head and nape light greyish brown ; upper surface of the body, tail and 

 under surface olive, tinged with grey on the breast and abdomen ; all the 

 feathers of both surfaces margined on each side with a line of black ; under 

 tail coverts black, every feather with a small tooth-like mark of white on each 

 side near the base, a similar but larger mark about two-thirds from the base, 

 and two coalescing oval spots of white at the tips ; bill reddish ; tarsi brown. 

 Total length 9 inches ; bill 0*62 ; wing 3-5 ; tail 275 ; tarsi 1*33. 



Female. General tint cinnamon brown, with a rufous edging to each 

 feather ; those of the upper surface with light coloured shafts and triangular 

 mark of dull black on the inner web near the tip, preceded by a small mark 

 of the same hue as the shafts; on the under surface the dark mark occupies 

 the centre of the tip of each feather, and is of a lanceolate form ; the throat is 

 pale greyish cinnamon, as is also the head, where there is an indication of the 



