158 GAME BIRDS OF INDIA AND ASIA. 



me a live specimen he had captured there under 

 very pecuhar circumstances : it was flying round and 

 round a lamp where he used to catch moths, and 

 he caught it in a butterfly-net 



Its breeding time is in July and August in Upper 

 India, but in Mysore about April, and its eggs are 

 of a similar type to those of the last species. 

 Mr. D. Seth-Smith has bred it in England, and 

 finds the incubation-period to be only twelve days, 

 whereas the equally small Painted Quail takes 

 three weeks. The hen Button-quail is so masculine 

 in her character that during courtship she gives her 

 mate any tit-bit she may obtain, just as the com- 

 mon cock and some others of the true game-birds 

 do with their females ! Moreover, she does not care 

 at all for her young, but eats the food the}' ought 

 to have. 



The Burmese Yellow-legged Button-Quail. 



Turnix blanfordi, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, 

 Vol. IV, p. 156. 



Native name : — Ngon, Burmese 



This is hardly a distinct species, but merely a 

 large local race of the last one, the females being 

 seven inches long as against the six and-a-half 

 inches of the Indian specimens. The plumage, 

 however, is distinguishable in adult specimens by 

 the greater amount of black barring on the back. 

 This species ranges from Assam and Chittagong to 

 China ; of course extending through Burma 



