306 PARTRIDGE. 



serrated; legs pale, three toes before and one behind, but no spur: 

 the tail was wanting. 



Inhabits New South Wales.— Lord Stanley. 



47.— NEW-HOLLAND QUAIL. 



Perdix Austialis, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. lxii. 



Caille Australe, Temm. Pig. Sp Gall. 8vo. iii. p. 474. 



New-Holland Quail, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 283. 



LENGTH seven inches and a half. Bill blue black ; general 

 colour of the plumage mottled chestnut, marked with zigzags of 

 black, and dots of the same, with a white line down the shafts of the 

 feathers, in the manner of the quail ; under parts of the body buff- 

 colour, with the same kind of irregular black marks as above ; chin 

 pale ; down the middle of the crown a dark streak; legs brown. 



Inhabits New-Holland. — General Davies. 



48— ELEGANT QUAIL. 



SMALLER than the European Quail ; length seven inches. 

 Bill blue-black; plumage on the upper parts of the body, wings, 

 and tail, beautifully marbled, and mixed with chestnut and black, 

 with a line of pure white down the shaft of each feather; quills 

 plain brown, marbled on the outer margin ; tail crossed with undu- 

 lated, black bars; the crown of the head darker than the rest, 

 with a pale line down the middle, and a narrower one on each 

 side of it ; the chin is plain brownish buff; the rest beneath pale 

 tawny buff, fully marked with black crescents, curving downwards, 

 arising from the feathers having three or four such curved bars on 

 each side of the shaft ; legs pale brown, claws yellow. 



