990 Birds. 



differs most materially from the previously published description 

 (Zool. 872) compiled from Temminck and Gould, and especially from 

 the beautiful figures of H. trachydromus in the ' Birds of Europe ;' 

 indeed, the differences are so great as to induce a doubt as to the 

 identity of the species. A much greater resemblance is observable 

 between the specimen before me and one from India, preserved in 

 the collection of the British Museum, under the name of Turnix 

 maculosa, and of which the following synonyms appear in the list of 

 Gallinae in the British Museum, p. 41 : " The Crescent Quail. Turnix 

 maculosa, Steph. Hemipodius maculosus, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. 

 6, 31. T. maculatus, Viell. Gall. Ois. t. 217." 



The beak has the upper mandible brown, inclining to lead colour ; 

 the lower mandible is of the same colour at the tip, but nearly 

 yellow towards the base ; the gape in the living bird is yellow. The 

 slender elongate form of the beak is totally different from that of the 

 common quail. The irides are pale yellow ; the forehead and crown 

 of the head are dark brown, each feather having a slender pale 

 margin ; the feathers on the back of the neck are spotted with dark 

 brown, pale testaceous, and bright rust colour ; those on the back 

 and rump are ferruginous brown, with irregular transverse bands of 

 dark brown or black, and a broad irregular band of pale testaceous ; 

 those covering the wings have the same colours, but the black bands 

 in each are consolidated into one conspicuous blackish patch ; the 

 throat is pale ferruginous, each feather being tipped with dark brown ; 

 there is a broad central line down the breast of the same colour, but 

 on each side of this line the feathers are testaceous, each having a 

 transverse black patch ; the lower breast and belly are testaceous, 

 and the feathers about the vent of nearly the same colour, but 

 rather brighter ; the wing-feathers are dusky brown, with pale mot- 

 tled margins : the legs and feet of the living bird were pale yellow. 



The total length of the bird, when laid on its back before skinning, 

 was six and a half inches : the expansion of the wings from tip to 

 tip, twelve inches ; the length of each wing, from the flexure to the 

 end, three and a half inches. The beak, from the tip to the gape, 

 six-tenths of an inch ; from the tip to the commencement of feathers 

 on the forehead, four-tenths of an inch. Length of the tarsus, one 

 inch ; of the inner toe, five-tenths of an inch ; of the middle toe, 

 eight-tenths : of the outer toe, five and a half tenths. 



Edward Newman. 



}), Devonshire-street, Bishopsgate, 

 1 1th May, 184.'). 



