168 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on the Genus Coturnix. 



r. Chin and throat white, with a very clearly 

 defined black anchor-shaped mark (a large 

 black patch on the middle of the breast). 



c. General colour of the underparts buff .... C. coromandelica, S • 



d. General colour of the underparts chestnut. C. Delegorguei, S • 

 G. Chin and throat brick-colour or chestnut. 



e. Throat dull brick-colour. Size smaller. 



Wing ca. 4-1 C. pectoralis, S • 



f. Throat bright brick-colour or chestnut. 



Size larger. Wing ca. 4"6 C. novcB zealandics, J . 



H. Chin and throat white or buff, without a 

 black band down the centre. 



ff. Chest-feathers without a submarginal band 

 on either web. 



a'. Ground-colour of the wing-coverts 



sandy buff, underparts pale buff C. coromandelica, 2 • 



b'. Ground-colour of the wing-coverts 

 blackish grey, underparts rufous-buff 

 or duU chestnut C. Delegorguei, 5 . 



h. Chest-feathers with a submarginal black 

 band on either web. 



c'. The black bands are not confluent in the 

 median line, but separated by a buff 

 isthmus. Size smaller. Wingca. 4'1. C. pectoralis, 2- 



d'. The black bands are confluent in the 

 median line and form a W-shaped 

 mark. Size larger. Wing ca. 4"6 . . C. novcB zealandics, $ . 



While this paper was passing through the press the 

 January number of the Journ. fiir Orn. arrived in England. 

 It contains a full description and coloured figure of the so- 

 called C. Emini, which must be added to the synonymy of 

 E. Adansoni. 



Coturnix coturnix. (Woodcut, fig. I.) 



Tetrao israelitarum, Hasselq^. Reise Palaest. p. 3-31 (1762). 



Tetrao coturnix, Linn. S. N. i. p. 278 (1766). 



Perdix coturnix, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 651 (1790) ; Vieill. Faun. Fran?. 

 p. 255, pi. cxi. tigs. 2 and 3 (1828) ; Selb. 111. Brit. Orn. i. p. 437, 

 pi. Ixii. (1833) ; Kiirner, Skand. Fogl. p. 13, pi. xxviii. fig. 5 

 (1839-46). 



Ortygion coturnix, Keyserl. u. Bias. Wirbelth. Europa's, p. 202 (1840). 



Ortyx coturnix, Chenu et Desm. Encycl. Ois. vi. p. 154 (1854). 



Coturnix coturnix, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 84 (1854). 



Turnix coturnix, Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 353. 



Perdix cothurnix, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxv. p. 248 (1817). 



Coturnix alba, Bechst. Nat. Deutschl. iii. p. 581 (1793). 



Coturnix varia, Bechst. /. c. p. 581 (1793). 



