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The bird is thus pretty well known now, and what 

 is chiefly wanted are birds in young plumage and a 

 well-authenticated set of the eggs, which would 

 appear from the description above given to differ 

 from those of the common painted bush-quail as 

 much as does the plumage of the parents. 



Inglis' Bush-Quail. 



Microferdix inglisi, Grant, Journ. Bom. 

 Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. XIX, p. i. 



Native name : — Kala goondri, Goalpara 

 district. 



This is hardly more than a local race of the last 

 species from which it differs chiefly in the reduction 

 of the black markings, which form mere pencillings 

 above on the grey back, and are narrower on the 

 buff breast. It was discovered by Mr. C. M. Inglis 

 in the Goalpara district, where it is plentiful, but 

 Mr. Ogilvie Grant of the British Museum considers 

 that a specimen said to have been procured in the 

 Bhutan Dooars and received from the Calcutta 

 Museum in 1893 belongs probably to this race. 



The Mountain Quaul. 



Ophrysia superciliosa. Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, 

 Vol. IV, p. 105. 



The Mountain quaU — so called, for it is the least 

 quaU-like of all these little birds — is rather larger 

 than the common grey quail, with a decidedly long 

 tail for a bird of the kind, this appendage being fully 

 as long as or longer than any ordinary partridge's, 

 although all but covered above and below by the 



