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nape, rich fulvous buff, each feather with a black spot, towards 

 the tip ; chin and upper throat, and sides of the neck imme- 

 diately below the cheek and ear patch, black ; rest of the 

 sides of the neck, like the nape. A white patch at the base 

 of the throat, the feathers with oval black shaft spots ; entire 

 breast French grey ; the feathers nearest the white throat patch 

 with large oval shaft stripes ; lower part of the breast paler, 

 centre of abdomen nearly pure white; flank feathers grey- 

 ish, tiuged with rufescent olive, with white oval subterminal 

 shaft spots and generally a little black beyond these ; lower 

 tail-coverts olive with black subterminal spots or bars, and 

 mostly broadly tipped paler. The entire iuterscapulary region, 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts a rich, slightly greenish, 

 olive, all the feathers narrowly tipped and transversely barred 

 with black. The subterminal bar expanding at the shaft in 

 many of the feathers of the rump and upper tail-coverts, into a 

 sort of diamond shaped or arrow head patch. The lesser coverts 

 mostly like the back, but often with more black about them. 

 The scapulars similar, but broadly tipped with bright or deep 

 ferruginous, preceded, especially in the case of the longest sca- 

 pulars, with very broad velvet-black bars. The primaries and, 

 their greater coverts are plain brown, slightly margined at the 

 tips with fulvous. The tertiaries are ferruginous, freckled and 

 vermicilated with brown, with a pale patch towards the tips 

 on the outer webs and an imperfect black bar beyond this. The 

 secondaries are brown like the primaries, only rather darker 

 and with an increasingly wide margin to the outer webs simi- 

 lar to the tertiaries. 



The tail feathers are olive brown vermicilated with black. 

 The lower wing-coverts along the edge of the wing are dark 

 brown, most of the rest of the lower coverts white ; many of the 

 greater secondary and tertiary upper wing coverts approxi- 

 mate in color and markings to the scapulars. 



I do not yet know whether the plumage in both sexes is 

 precisely alike, all my specimens are similar, but they have not 

 been sexed and they may be all males. 



In brunneopectus, as we know, both sexes are precisely alike. 



832. — Turnix pugnax, Tem. 



" The Bustard Quail is plentiful during the rains in grass lands. 

 It breeds in June, making a very shallow cavity fo" its nest. 

 It lays about 4 or 5 eggs of a brownish grey colour. — J. I." 



855— Lobivanellus indicus, Bodd. 



" The Red Wattled Lapwing is rare in this district ; a few 

 stragglers are sometimes seen during March and April. — J. I." 



