16. THE BLACK-BREASTED QUAIL. 



Coturnix coromandelica^ (GMELIN). 



Sides of the body streaked. 

 Outer web of the first ten quills of the 

 wing quite plain and unmarked. 



MALE : Breast black. 



FEMALE : Breast merely spotted with 

 black. 



VERNACULAR NAMES: It is improbable 

 that natives discriminate this species from 

 the Grey Quail. The following names, 

 being additional to those already given 

 for the latter bird, are quoted from Messrs. 

 Hume and Marshall's work. China 

 butteyr, Upper India ; Chdnac, Nepal ; 

 Kade, Tamil ; Chinna-yellichi t Telugu ; 

 Ngon, Burmese. 



THE Black-breasted or Rain Quail is 

 restricted to the Indian Empire and is 

 very widely distributed. I can find no 

 notice of the occurrence of this Quail 

 in Kashmir, Tenasserim or the Shan 

 States, but with these exceptions it appears 

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