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here exhibit traces of a very narrow f ringe of this color outside the 

 terminal black line. The tail feathers are ruf ous, freckled, and 

 irregularly barred with blackish brown. The primaries, and 

 their greater coverts, and the winglet, hair brown; the former, 

 slightly freckled towards the tips with pale rufous; the latter, 

 with freckly, irregular bars of this color on the outer webs. 

 The secondaries, slightly darker than the primaries, freckled at 

 the tips like these, but more strongly so, and with five or six 

 irregular, freckled, rufous bars on the outer webs. The lesser and 

 median coverts, longer scapulars, and tertiaries, mingled buffy 

 white, pale rufous, and olive brown, irregularly barred and 

 freckled, and with a few blotches of blackish brown ; a good 

 many of the scapulars with narrow, buffy-wkite, shaft stripes at 

 the tips. Lower breast and middle of abdomen, in some a some- 

 what pale ochreous buff, in others ferruginous. Lower abdomen 

 and vent, white or buffy white; lower tail coverts, colored much 

 like the middle of the abdomen, several of them with one or 

 more imperfect black bands. The flanks and sides are tinged with 

 the same ferruginous or buff as the breast and abdomen; the 

 feathers, freckled with black or blackish brown, and with narrower 

 or broader, irregular, wavy, or freckled, transverse bars of the same 

 color, and the feathers of the flanks with narrow buffy white 

 shaft stripes towards the tips. 



I have already (Stray Feathers, Vol. II, p. 449) given a 

 rough diagnostical key, which will, I hope, enable sportsmen and 

 others to discriminate readily the eight species of Arboricolce, 

 or Arborophllce, which occur within our limits. 



830.— Cotnrnix coromandelica, Gm. 



Mr. Oates remarks : " This Quail is very common ; indeed, 

 very fair quail-shooting is to be got at Thayetmyo on the 

 brigade-ground and adjacent scrub jungle." 



833.— Turnix pugnax, Tem., (Pi. Col. 60). 



These Bustard Quails vary much in plumage and somewhat 

 in size, especially in depth of bill. I cannot as yet see my way to 

 separate taigoor, pugnax, Sfc. The specimens now sent by both 

 Captain Feilden and Mr. Oates agree, some of them exactly, with 

 Malacca specimens, others with Raipoor, Madras, and Kutch 

 birds, while one is closest to a Ceylon specimen. I am inclined 

 to believe that if one could get together a large series from a 

 number of different localities, all the different types would be found 

 represented from each locality. At present I treat all the plains 

 birds as belonging to a single species — -pugnax. I am inclined, 

 however, to think the larger Sikhim race, plumblpes, Hodgs., 

 entitled to specific separation. 



