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tail, which scarcely exceeds the tips of the wings when closed ; its length is five 

 inches : the top of the head is varied with black spots, and the whole of the feathers 

 are tipped with greyish-red; a white band extends over the crown; the eyebrows, 

 sides of the neck, and nape, are bright red ; the throat and cheeks reddish-white ; 

 the fore-part of the neck, breast, belly, sides, and thighs, are red, and (with the 

 exception of the feathers of the sides and those of the edge of the breast, which are 

 varied with stripes of black and reddish-white,) they are spotless; the feathers of 

 the top of the back and the scapularies are black in the centre, bordered with white, 

 and tipped with red ; those of the middle of the back and the long ones which hide 

 the tail, are deep black, varied with rufous undulations, and slightly edged with 

 yellowish ; the scapularies are a little spotted with grey-blue ; the wing-coverts are 

 reddish-yellow; the whole of the feathers with a black spot near the tip, and the 

 longer ones with the inner webs red, spotted with black ; primaries and secondaries 

 bright grey, edged with reddish-white; the bill and feet fine yellow." Capt. Brown's 

 figure of the Indian bird before referred to accords tolerably well, upon the whole, 

 with this description, differing chiefly a little about the head. 



7. The other Bustard Quail is identified by that gentleman with the Dubkee 

 Quail of Latham, Gen. Hist. VIII, 340, and which is thus described by that author. 

 "Length under five inches. Bill pale. Head mottled whitish and ash-colour; 

 all round the neck and sides ferruginous ; down the middle from the chin, paler fer- 

 ruginous ; the rest of the upper-parts fine pale ash-colour, varied with paler spots, 

 inclining to rufous ; under-parts cinereous clay-colour, marked on the sides of the breast 

 with round black spots of several sizes ; greater wing-coverts and second quills pale 

 clay-colour, spotted with black, some of the spots kidney-shaped; greater quills 

 and tail plain dusky; legs yellow, and three toes only. Inhabits India, where it is 

 called Dubkee." Sir J. Anstruther. 



"A. Bill and legs yellow: plumage in general pale grey, crossed with fine black 

 lines ; lower part of the neck behind, inclining to rufous ; breast the same ; outer part 

 of the wing and breast marked with small, distinct spots of black. Inhabits India 

 and China, called Looah," — a name commonly bestowed on the tiny Bush Partridge, 

 classed as Coturnix Argoondah by Col. Sykes. 



Capt. Brown's figure of this species represents the back as handsomely ornamented 

 with round white spots, margined with black. 



8. Dr. Latham also describes a Balen Quail, which is very probably the taigoor, 

 notwithstanding certain discrepancies. " Size uncertain. Bill black. Top of the head, 

 even with the eyes, marked brown ; down the middle of the crown a pale clay- 

 coloured streak, and another over each eye, almost to the back ; the chin, sides under 

 the eyes, and throat, white; sides of the neck and breast clay-colour; down the 

 middle, from the throat to the breast, a broad black streak ; the rest of the under- 

 parts pale clay-colour, each feather marked down the middle with a long black 

 streak, rounded at the bottom ; back and wings pale mottled brown, as the head, 

 marked with a series of pale yellow streaks down the middle and two others of the 

 same on each side, besides some fine similar lines from the shaft of each feather; 

 legs pale red, three toes only. 



" Inhabits India, called Balen. Sir J. Anstruther." 



" One supposed to be a female, is marked much the same about the head, but with- 



