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CHINESE QUAIL. 
(Coturnix excalfactoria.) 
Co. corpore supra Jusco maculis nigris et lineis albis consperso, 
jvgulo nigro arcu albo, ventre medio castaneo. (Femina swper- 
ciliis temporibusque rufis, guld alba, corpore supra cinerascente- 
riifo nigroque vario, subtus cinerascente-rufo, arcubus nigris 
undulato.) 
Quail with the body above brown, sprinkled with black spots 
and white lines; the jugulum black, with a white arch ; the 
middle of the belly chesnut. {Female with the eyebrow and 
temples red ; the throat white; the body above greyish, varied 
with rufous and black ; beneath greyish rufous, undulated with 
black arcs.) 
Coturnix excalfactoria. Temm. Gall, Ind. p. 742. 
Coturnix Philippensis. Briss. Orn. 1. 254. 17- pi- 25.^^ 1. male. 
Perdix chinensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 652. 29 . male. 
Perdix manillensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 655. 40. female. 
Tetrao chinensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 765. I 9 . male, 
Tetrao manillensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 764. 5/. female. 
La fraise ou Caille de la Chine. Buff. Ois. 2. 478. male. — Buff. 
PI. Enl. \lQ.ff. 2. female. 
La petit Caille de I’ile de Lugon, Sonner. Voy. Ind. 54. pi. 24. 
female. 
Caille fraise. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3.p. 5l6. 
Manilla Quail. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 790- 36. female. 
Chinese Quail. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 783. male. — Ediu. Glean, p. 
247. male. 
This elegant little species measures only four 
inches in length : the male has a triangular deep 
black spot on the throat : from the base of the 
beak extends a white whisker, surrounded by 
black : below tlie black on the throat is a })ure 
