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NEW-GUINEA QUAIL. 
in the centre of each feather : the back, the rnnip, 
the tail-coverts, and middle ones of the wings, are 
transversely striped with broad bands of black and 
narrow zigzag ones of deep rufous; all the featliers 
being whitish yellow in their centre, forming a nar- 
row stripe of that colour down each shaft : the 
lesser coverts towards the bend of the wing are 
grey-brown : the fore-part of the neck, the breast, 
and the whole of the rest of the under parts of the 
body, are greyish -rufous ; most of the feathers 
having their shafts whitish, and being transversely 
barred with black : the quills are brown, with a 
reddish hue on their outer webs: the tail is covered 
by its upper coverts, and is of a brown colour, 
barred with zigzag lines of deep rufous : the feet 
and the claws are brown : the beak is dusky blue. 
The female is duller in colour, and has more of a 
greyish tinge over the whole plumage : the reddish 
spots on the upper parts are more irregularly dis- 
posed, the shafts of each feather being white as in 
the male : the under parts of the body are reddish- 
grey, with very slight zigzag brown lines. 
This is abundant in New Holland : it has the 
same manners as the common Quail. 
NEW-GUINEA QUAIL. 
(Coturnix Novae-Guineae.) 
Co. corpore supra fusco, subtus dilutiore, tectricihus alarum mar- 
gine jlavicantihusy remigibus nigris. 
