686 COWRNIXTETEAOPHASIS 



male, has the throat bright rufous chestnut with a black anchor- 

 shaped mark down the middle. 



Is chiefly migratory throughout its range, and is a less gre- 

 garious bird than the Partridge, but when migrating they 

 collect in vast flocks. Its flight is swift, whirring and direct, 

 and its food consists of seeds, grain, and insects. Its note is a 

 short harsh and deep prelude rowow, followed by a loud pickemic 

 or wet-my-lips, or wet-my-feet, and both sexes call each other with 

 a note resembling the syllables beebewe. It is monogamous, and 

 breeds late, the eggs being deposited late in June or early in 

 July, in a depression in the ground scantily lined with a few 

 grass bents or plant stems. The eggs, 8 to 14 in number, are 

 brownish yellow, richly blotched with blackish brown, and 

 measure about 118 by 0'92. 



959. SUBSP. COTURNIX JAPONICA. 



Coturnix japonica, Temm. and Schlegel, Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 103, pi. 61 

 (1842) ; Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxii. p. 239 ; C. ussuriensis, 

 Bogcl. Consp. Av. Imp. Ross. i. p. 45 (1884) ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. 

 p. 780. 



Udzursi, Jap. 



$ ad. (Japan). Differs from C. communis in having the lores, sides of 

 the head, chin, and throat uniform dull brick red, without any black mark 

 in the middle, and the flank feathers with rufous margins, and less spotted 

 with black. Culmen 0'5, wdng 3'8, tail T15, tarsus TO inch. The female 

 differs from that of C. communis in having the chin and throat feathers 

 elongate and lanceolate, those on the sides of the throat margined with 

 rufous on the outer web. 



Hob. Japan, Corea, China, Manchuria, Mongolia, Ordos, 

 Kan-su, and Koko-nor, north to the Ussuri country and Dauria 



In habits it does not differ from C. communis, and its eggs are 

 similar to those of that species. 



TETRAOPHASIS, Elliot, 1871. 



960. MOUPIN PHEASANT. 

 TETRAOPHASIS OBSCURUS. 



Tetraophasis olscurus (Verr.), N. Arch. Mus. Bull. v. p. 33, pi. vi. (1869) ; 

 Elliot, Mon. Phas. pi. xxi. ; Gould, B. of As. vii. pi. 44 ; Prjev. 

 Mongol, i Strana Tangut. &c, ii. p. 429, pi. xx. fig. 2 (egg) ; Ogilvie 

 Grant, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxii. p. 102. 



