jo Favourite Foreign Birds. 



custard made with egg and milk, fine oatmeal, gentles 

 well scoured in bran, chopped lettuce, and a little hard- 

 boiled yolk of fresh eggs. As they get older they should 

 be gradually accustomed to a diet of millet and corn. 



THE CoROMANDEL QUAIL, Coturnix coromandelica, 

 is a charming little species from India, and is about 

 the size of our English Quail, to which it bears con- 

 siderable resemblance, though it is a trifle larger, 

 and has a black, shield-like spot on the breast. The 

 female lacks this distinctive mark. 



THE AUSTRALIAN and TASMANIAN QUAILS, Syn&cus 

 australis and Syn&cus diemenensis, two nearly allied 

 species, breed in confinement almost as readily as the 

 Californian. 



THE ARGOONDAH QUAIL, a native of Southern 

 India, another free breeder, must close my list, which 

 would not be exhausted if I were to enumerate 

 twenty species more. The scientific name of the last 

 mentioned is Coturnix argoondah (Russ) or asiatica ; 

 it is of a brownish colour above, and black and white 

 disposed in narrow, alternate lines on the lower part 

 of the body. 



All the Quails incubate for twenty-one days, and 

 bhould be fed on small corn, canary, millet, dari, &c., 

 with green food, and an occasional feed of ants' eggs 

 or gentles. 



