IS. THE GREY QUAIL. 



Coturnix coturnioc^ ( 



Sides of the body streaked. 

 Outer web of the quills of the wing 

 marked with rufous. 



MALE : Throat dark brown or blackish. 



FEMALE -.Throat pale buff and without 

 any lengthened and pointed feathers on 

 the sides of the chin and upper throat. 



VERNACULAR NAMES: Bhater, Burra 

 B hater, Gagus Bhater, Upper India ; 

 Buttairo, Butteyra, Sind ; Buttree, 

 Lower Bengal ; Soifol, Manipur ; 

 Botah Surrai, Assam ; Lowa, Ratna- 

 giri ; Bilr-ganja, Bur-ganji, Gur-ganj, 

 Poona, Satara, etc. ; Bzirli, Belgaum ; 

 Gogari-yellichi, Telugu ; Peria-ka-deh, 

 Tamil ; Siale haki, Canarese. 



THE Common or Grey Quail is chiefly a 

 winter visitor to India, being extremely 

 common at that season in the northern 

 half of the peninsula and becoming rarer 

 towards the south. Hitherto it has not been 

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