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MADAGASCAR QUAIL. 
are varied with longitudinal brown bands, edged 
outwardly with white spots, surrounded by black: 
the quills are brown ; and the tail-feathers are grey. 
Native place unknown. 
MADAGASCAR QUAIL. 
(Coturnix Perlata.) 
Co. corpore supra castaneo-Jcrrugineo Jasciis lincisquc longih(di- 
nalibus alhidiSf subtus maculis rotundatis albis conspcrso, guld 
nigra, vitta snp>ra ocrdos maxillarique albis. 
Quail with the body above rusty-chesnut, with whitish longi- 
tudinal fascice and lines ; beneath sprinkled with rounded 
white spots ; the throat black 5 a stripe above the eyes, and 
the maxillae, white. 
Coturnix perlata. Temm. Gall. hid. p. 739. 
Perdix striata. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 654. 36. 
Teirao striatus. Gmcl. S^st. Nat. 1. 763. 53. 
La grand Caille de Madagascar. Sonner. Voy. Ind. 2. \6q. j)l. 
98. 
Caille a ventre perlee. Temm. Pig. ct Gall. 3. p. 470. 
Madagascar Quail. Lath. Gen. Si/n. 4. 788. 32. 
This beautiful species is distinguished from the 
rest of the Quails by its superior strength of beak, 
the upper mandible of which is rather elongated. 
The male only is known, and was discovered by 
Sonnerat : it is about double the size of the com- 
mon species : the top of its head, hind part of the 
neck, back and rump, are of a reddish-brown, each 
