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dusky, semilunar spots ; wing coverts, scapulars, and secondaries, 

 black and cinereous, edged with yellow ; prime quills grey, edged 

 with black ; tail cinereous, with semilunar marks of black ; belly 

 dull orange; vent red, crossed with a band of ash-colour and black; 

 legs flesh-colour. 



Inhabits Java ; there called Dagu, otherwise Ayam-Ayam-han. 



52. -NOISY PARTRIDGE. 



Perdix suscitator, Ind. Orn. ii. 654. 



Tetrao suscitator, Gm. Lin. i. 763. 



Coturnix Javensis, Bris. i. 251. Id. 8vo. i. 70. 



Indica Bontii, Raii, 58. Will. 123. 



Le Reveil-matin, Bvf. ii. 479. 



Indian Quail of Bontius, Will. Engl. 171. pi. 29. 



Noisy Quail, Gen. Syn. iv. 787. 



A VERY slight description is given of this bird ; merely that it 

 is bigger than a Turtle ; but like our Quail, except that the bill is 

 longer; as to the colour of the plumage, it is a mixture of yellowish, 

 rufous, black and grey. 



Inhabits the Island of Java, and cries by intervals, but the noise 

 more like that which Bitterns make in the marshes, than any kind 

 of Quail : they are easily tamed, but so impatient of cold, that if 

 not kept warm, especially during the night, and exposed to the 

 sun with sand strewed under them, they are in danger of dying : 

 are kept in houses as an alarum, and much valued by the inhabitants, 

 for at sun-rise they begin their cry, and so loud as to waken the whole 

 house: are found in covies in the woods; but often kept tame, the 

 cock, hen, and whole brood walking up and down the yards like 

 other poultry. The cocks much given to fighting with each other, 

 like Game Cocks. This is probably no other than the Javan Species. 



