1842.] Asiatic Society. 807 



ners of both were confounded in the account given of T. suscitator. Lin. Trans. 

 XIII. pt. II, p. 324. 



T. Luzoniensis is also the only species included in Dr. Horsfield's Catalogue of the 

 Birds of Java ; but it may be that the H. pugnax of Temminck is regarded by Sir 

 Stamford Raffles merely as a particular state of plumage of his Luzoniensis, for 

 M. Temminck informs us that H. pugnax inhabits Java, where it is greatly prized on 

 account of its pugnacious disposition, the inhabitants amusing themselves by setting 

 the males (?) to fight in the manner of game-cocks. [Col. Sykes, it may here be men- 

 tioned, takes upon himself to assert of his H. pugnax that "its pugnacious qualities 

 are quite unknown in Dukhun, and even in Java."] I should not be surprised if 

 T. atrogularis should prove to be identical with the Javanese pugnax, while it is quite 

 distinct from a Madras specimen of Col. Sykes's Indian pugnax, this being the only 

 one I have to compare with several specimens of Mr. Eyton's atrogularis received 

 chiefly from Singapore. Of T. Luzoniensis, I have no specimen to refer to, but 

 there is a rude figure of this bird in Sonnerat's Voyage d la Nouvelle Guinee, upon 

 which its specific name was founded. La petite Caille de I'Isle de Luzon of this author, 

 represents the female of Coturnix Phillipensis. 



10. T. fasciatus ; H.fasciatus, Tern. Inhabits the Phillipines. " Rather above five 

 inches in length. The whole of the fore-part of the neck, the sides of the head and 

 of the breast, transversely striped with black and white; belly spotless red; top of 

 the head black ; the region of the eyes striped alternately with white and black ; nape 

 bright red; back and rump brown, varied with black and red; wing-coverts trans- 

 versely striped with black and white; the feathers nearest the body having their 

 outer webs black, tipped with grey: the feet and beak are yellowish." Stephens. 



11. T. rufus, Vieillot " O. cor pore supra cinereo, punctis nigris ; jugulo nigro 

 alboque vario ; corpore subtus, remigibus primariis, rectricibusque lateralibus fusco~ 

 rufis ; rostro corneo, basi nigricante, pedibus rubescentibus." Inhabits China. 



Various other species of this genus occur in Australia, the whole of Africa, even 

 Spain, and probably other parts of Southern Europe, and doubtless Western Asia; but 

 there is none in America. The Society's Museum contains two from the Cape colony, 

 of which one appears to be the Spotted-necked Quail of Latham, and the other (a 

 pretty, small, red-breasted species,) I cannot find described; but then I have not 

 Dr. A. Smith's ' South African Zoology' to refer to. I have brought together all 

 the notices I could find of eastern species, though I do not expect that so many will 

 eventually be verified as distinct; but the data here collected will be useful in 

 assisting the investigations of such as may now bestow attention on the group, and 

 certainly may be presumed to intimate that the latter is richer in Indian species 

 than has hitherto been currently supposed. 



The other small Gallinacees classed with the preceding as Quails by Anglo-Indian 

 sportsmen are as follow, — all having a fourth or hind toe. 



True Quails f genus Coturnix J, having the first quill longest, the tarsi having 

 no trace of spurs, &c. Habits migratory. 



1. C. dactylisonans : the Common Quail. An inhabitant of Europe, Asia, and Africa, 

 to the Cape of Good Hope. It is very abundant in the Upper Provinces of India 

 during the cool months, less so in the peninsula, and is the most frequent species 

 of Coturnix in the vicinity of Calcutta. Is rarely known to breed in this country. 



