NEW HOLLAND QUAIL. 
373 
This bird is abundant in the Manilla and Philip- 
pine Islands, and in China is amazingly numerous. 
The inhabitants of the latter place breed them, and 
keep them in cages, for the singular purpose of 
warming their hands in the winter : they also rear 
them for the purpose of fighting in the same 
manner that cocks are used in this country. 
NEW HOLLAND QUAIL. 
(Coturnix Australis.) 
Co. corpore supra castaneo-nehuloso^ nigro striatOj scapis penna- 
rum albo lineatis, suhtus drier ascente~rufo, lunulis nigris trans- 
versim striatis. ( Femlna coloribus dilutioribus . ) 
Quail with the body above clouded chesnut, striated with black; 
the shafts of the feathers striped with white ; beneath grey- 
ish-red, striated with transverse black lunules. {Female with 
the colours paler.) 
Coturnix Australis. Temm. Gall. Ind.p, 740. 
Perdix Australis. Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. Ixii. 3. 
Caille Australe. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. 474. 
New Holland Quail. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 283. 
This species is concisely described by Latham 
in his second Supplement, but more amply by 
Temminck, who also gives an account of the fe- 
male. The male is above seven inches in length : 
the forehead, the space round the eyes, the beak, 
and the throat, are dirty white : the top of the 
head and the nape are dusky, with a white spot 
