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



Coturnix communis, Blyth, Mamm. & B. Burma, p. 151 (1875) ; 



Prjev. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii, p. 424 (1877). 

 Coturnix ussuriensis, Bogd. Consp. Av. Imp. Ross. fasc. i. p. 45 (1884) . 



Range. Japan, Manchuria, S.E. Mongolia, and China as 

 far south as Canton. Specimens have also been obtained in 

 Bhootan and Karen-nee. 



, Young males have the elongate throat-feathers like those of 

 the adult female of C. coturnix above described, and the 

 middle of the tliroat is suffused with dull brick-red ; otherwise 

 the plumage resembles that of the male adult. 



In a rather more mature male otie side of the throat has 

 lost the immature elongate feathers like those of the female 

 and assumed the short, rounded, dull rufous feathers charac- 

 teristic of the male adult. 



Prjevalsky is, as far as I can find, the only person who has 

 previously noted the elongate feathers on the throat of this 

 bird. He writes (Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 424) : — " A male 

 was obtained in S.E. Mongolia in June. It differs from the 

 European bird in the longer lancet-shaped feathers of the 

 sides of the throat, which are like those of Perdix harhata. 

 I cannot say if this is a constant or only an occasional case, 

 as we have got but one specimen for comparison." 



This specimen, if correctly sexed, was no doubt a young 

 male. Prjevalsky also remarks (/. c), "This bird [6'. 

 japonica] is easily distinguished from the European one by 

 its voice .... and from the end of March to the middle of 

 summer the call-note of the males can be heard daily, con- 

 sisting of some deep hollow sounds several times repeated in 

 quick succession." 



Coturnix coromandelica. 



Coromnndel Quail, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. ii. p. 789 (1783). 



Tetrao coromanddicus, Gmel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 764 fl788). 



Perdix coi'mmmdelica, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 654 (1790). 



Coturnix coromajidelica, Vieill. Tabl. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 221 (1823) ; 



Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. ix. (1854) ; Hume & Marsh. Game B. Ind. ii. 



p. 152, pL (1879). 

 Coturnix coromandelictis, Blyth, Mamm. Sz B. Burma, p. 161 (1875). 

 Perdix textilis, Temm. PI. Col. v. pi. xl. [no. 35] (1824); Drapiez, 



Diet. Sci. Nat. viii. p. 429, pi., fig. 1 (1824), 

 Coturnix textilis, Temm. Pig, et Gall. iii. pp. 512, 742 (1815) ; Less. 



Traite d'Orn. p. 509, pi. xc. fig. 1 (1831) ; Jard. Nat. Lib., Orn. iv. 



p. 116, pi. viii. (1834). 

 Cotwnix textilis ?, var. pbtvialis, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 85 



(1844) ; id. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus. nos. 119 and 120. 

 Perdix olivacea, Buchau. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 123. 



Range. Greater part of the peninsula of India j Assam, 



