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form was formerly referred to that genus. Three species are now 

 known two inhabiting the Indian Peninsula, and the third 

 Manipur and Assam. 



Key to tlie Species. 



a. Upper surface brown with black spots. 

 '. Bill from gape O6 to O7 inch; a 



distinct black chin in males M. erythrorhynchus, p. 121. 



b'. Bill from gape O'o to 0'6 inch ; black 



chin indistinct or wanting M . blewitti, p. 122. 



h. Upper surface slaty grey with black bars 



and spots M. manipurensis, p. 122. 



1359. Microperdix erythrorhynchus. 'The Painted Bush-Quart. 



Coturnix erythrorhyncha, fykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 153 ; -Blyth, Cat. 



p. 255. 

 Perdicula erythrorhyncha, Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 58-1; Blyth, Ibis, 



1867, p. 160; Davids. Sf Wend. 6'. F. vii, p. 87; Daly, Jour. Bom. 



N. H. Soc. ii, p. 149. 

 Microperdix erythrorhyncha, Gould, Birds Asia, vii, pi. 3 ; Hume, 



N. $ E. p. '548; Fairbank. S. F. iv, p. 262; v, p. 409; Oyilvie 



Grant, Cat. B. M xxii, p. 203. 

 Microperdix erythrorhynchus, Hume, Cat. no. 828 ; Hume $ Marsh. 



Game B. ii, p. 123, pi. ; Butler, S. F. ix, p. 423 ; Damson, S. F. 



x, p. 411 ; Jtarnes, Bird* Bom. p. 314 ; Oates in Humes N. Sf E. 



2nd ed. iii, p. 442. 



Kadai, Tarn. 



Fig. 24. Head of M. erythrorhynchus, tf . \. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead, lores, all round the eyes and gape, 

 and the chin black; a narrow white sincipital band running back 

 above the eyes and brown ear-coverts on each side ; crown black, 

 more or less replaced by brown in the middle of the occiput ; 

 upper parts brown, back and rump with rounded or lens-shaped 

 black spots ; scapulars, tertiaries, and wing-coverts with white 

 shaft-stripes, distant buff cross-bars and subterminal black blotches, 

 chiefly on the inner webs ; quills brown, the outer webs with 

 rufous-buff cross-bars ; tail-feathers blackish brown, with narrow 

 buff transverse bands ; throat and cheeks white, surrounded by n 

 black gorget: rest of the lower parts light chestnut, the upper 

 breast washed with greyish brown, and the feathers with small 

 round subterminal black spots ; the flanks and lower tail- coverts 

 with large oval black spots with white borders. 



The female differs in having no black or white on the forehead, 



