118 PHASIANIDJE. 



Key to the >pe;irt. 



a. Breast barred black and white. (Adult males.) 



a'. Throat chestnut ; a distinct white supercilium. P. asiatica, p. 118. 

 6'. Throat dull brick-red j no distinct white super- 

 cilium P. argunda, p. 120. 



b. Breast not barred. (Females and young.) 



c. Inner webs of primaries brown throughout . . P. asiatica, p. 119. 

 d '. Inner webs of primaries barred or mottled 



with buff P. argunda, p. 120. 



1357. Perdicula asiatica*. The Jungle Bush-Quail. 



Perdix asiatica, Lath. 2nd. Orn. ii, p. 649 (1700) ; id. Gen. Hist, viii, 



p. 281 (1823). 



Perdix cambayensis, Temm. PI. Col. pi. 447 (1828), nee Lath. 

 Coturnix pentah, Sykes, P. Z. 8. 1832, p, 153; id. Trans. Z. S. ii, 



p. 19, pi. iii; Gray in Hardw. III. 2nd. Zool. pi. 45, fig. 3. 

 Perdicula argoondah, Btyth, Cat. p. 254, nee Sykes. 

 Perdicula asiatica, Adams, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 504 ; Hume, N. & E. 



Davidson, ibid. p. 317 : Davison, ibid. p. 4]1 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. 

 p. 312 ; Gates in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 440 ; Offiloie Grant, 

 Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 198. 



Perdicula cambavensis, apud Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 581 ; Blyth, Ibis, 

 1867, p. 1GO; 'Butler, S. F. iv, p. (5; Fail-bank, ibid. p. 202 ; nr.c 

 Lath. 



Loica, II. ; Juhar, Manbhum ; Auriconnai, Sonthali ; Girza-pitta, 

 Telegu ; Kari-lowya, Can. 



"/:: 

 Fig. 23. Head of P. asiatica, <$. }. 



Coloration. Male. Upper parts brown, the crown usually more 

 rufous and bordered or blotched with blackish ; the back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts with wavy black bars, a few narrow buff 

 snaft-streaks (wanting in very old birds) on the back ; scapulars, 

 tertiaries, and wing-coverts blotched with black, with broader buff 

 shaft-stripes and, the coverts especially, with buff cross-bars; 

 quills brown, with buff spots on the outer webs, inner webs plain, 

 the inner secondaries becoming banded and vermiculated ; tail 

 brown, with black-edged buff cross-bars ; forehead, supercilia, 



* I cannot recognize this bird by the original description in the 'Index 

 Ornithologicus,' but I quite agree with Hume that the present is the species 

 described in Latham's ' General History.' 



