17. THE BLUE-BREASTED QUAIL. 



Excalfactoria chinensis^ (LlNR*US). 



Sides of the body without streaks. 

 Outer web of the first ten quills of the 

 wing plain, unmarked. 



MALE : Breast and sides of the body 



blue. 

 FEMALE : Breast and sides of the body 



buff cross-barred with brown. 



VERNACULAR NAMES : Khair-butai, 

 Kaneli, Nepal ; Burli, Marathi ; Ngon, 

 Burmese. 



THE Blue-breasted Quail is found over 

 a considerable portion of the Indian 

 Empire, but it is nowhere very common 

 except in some of the wetter parts of 

 Bengal and Burma. In many portions 

 of India this species may be considered 

 rare, but materials are wanting to enable 

 me to define its limits. Roughly speaking 

 this Quail does not appear to occur west 

 of a line drawn from Simla to Baroda. 

 East of this line it has been observed 

 in various localities up to the extreme 



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