. PHASIANID^ COTURNIX 221 



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660. Coturnix africana, Cape Quail. 



Coturnix vulgaris africana, Temm. <& Sclileg., fauna Jap. p. 103 (1850). 

 Coturnix dactylisonans (nee Temm.) Strickland and Sclater, Contr. 



Ornith., 1852, p. 157; Ayres, Ibis, 1860, p. 216; Layard, B. S. Afr. 



p. 274 (1867) ; Ay res, Ibis, 1874, p. 103 ; Barratt, fbis, 1876, p. 208 ; 



Gurney, Ibis, 1878, p. 410; Oates, Matabeleland, p. 324 (1881); 



Holub <& Pelzeln, Orn. Siid-Afr. p. 188 (1882). 

 Coturnix communis (nee Bonn.}, Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 467 ; id. in 



Andersson's B. Damaral., p. 248 (1872) ; Ay res, Ibis, 1878, p. 298 ; 



Butler, Feilden and Reid, Zool, 1882, p. 339 ; Symonds, Ibis, 1887, 



p. 333; Seebohm, Ibis, 1887, p. 342-3; Nicolls and Eglington, 



Sportsm. S. A., p. 106 (1892) ; Bryden, Gun and Camera, p. 474 



(1893). 

 Coturnix capensis, Gray, Handl. Bds. ii, p. 268 (1870) ; Grant, Ann t 



Mag. N. H. (6) x, pp. 167-170 with fig. (1892) ; id. Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 



237 (1893) ; id. Game Bds. i, p. 183 (1896) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 



178 (1896); Woodward Bros., Natal B., p. 164 (1899); Marshall, 



Ibis, 1900, p. 262 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 4 [Deelfontein] . 

 Coturnix coturnix, Sliarpe, ed. Layard's B. 8. Afr. pp. 603, 854 (1884) 



Fleck Journ. Ornith., 1894, p. 392; Eendall, Ibis, 1896, p. 175. 

 Coturnix coturnix africana, Reichenoiv, Vog. Afr. i, p. 506 (1901). 

 "Kwartel" of the Dutch, " Isagwityi " of the Amaxosa (Stanford); 

 Kue Kue " of Basutos (Murray). 



FIG. 68. Head of Coturnix africana, ? . x { 



Desertion. Adult Male. In the breeding season. General 

 colour above reddish brown varying to black, especially on the 

 rump and scapulars, many of the feathers with V-shaped cross bars 

 of yellowish and others with broad longitudinal shaft marks of 

 almost white ; these latter form a distinct white line along the centre 

 of the head and neck ; primaries, primary coverts and secondaries 

 blackish-brown, mottled in the former case on the outer webs, in the 

 latter on both webs with buff; lores and a stripe over the eye buffy- 

 white ; cheeks and sides of the throat rufous ; a black patch com- 

 mencing on the chin and widening out below on the throat ; chest 

 pale rufous with white shaft-marks passing to pure white on the 



