NEVV-GUINEA QUAIL. 
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Quail with the body above brown, beneath paler 5 with the edges 
of the wing-coverts yellowish 3 the quills black. 
Coturnix Novae Guineae. Temm. Galt. Ind.p. 744. 
Perdix Novae Guineae. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 655, 3Q. 
Tetrao Novae Guineae. Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 1. ^64. 56. 
La Caille de la Nouvelle Guinea. Sonner. Voy. Ind. 2. 170. pi. 
105. — Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. p. 524. 
New Guinea Quail. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 7S9* 35. 
The following concise description, accompanied 
by a figure, is given by Sonnerat of this rare spe- 
cies ; it is about half the size of the common Quail: 
the whole of the plumage is brown, brightest on 
the head and belly, and palest on the back and 
wings : the coverts of the latter are edged with 
yellow, of a dull and obscure hue: the quills are 
black : the irides and the feet are greyish. It in- 
habits New Guinea. 
