318 PARTRIDGE. 



inclined to rufous ; down the middle of the breast buff, from thence 

 deep chocolate brown ; under tail coverts darker; quills and tail like 

 the rest in colour, but on close view seem minutely powdered, or 

 mottled, though rather obscurely ; tail three inches and a half long, 

 full of feathers, and much rounded at the end ; legs red, with four 

 toes, but no spur. 



Inhabits Senegal. — In the collection of Mr. H. Brogden. 



60— CHINESE QUAIL. 



Perdix Chinensis, Ltd. Oi-n. ii. 652. 



Coturnix excalfatoria, Caille fraise, Temm. Pig. fy Gall. 8vo. iii. 51G. 



Tetrao Chinensis, Lin.\. 277. Gm. Lin. i. 765. Lin. Trans, xiii. 324. 



Coturnix Philippensis, Bris. i. 454. 17. t. 25. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 71. 



Fraise, on Caille de la Chine, Buf. ii. 478. Id. Sonnin. vii. 104. Tab. Enc. Orn. 223. 



pi. 95. f. 3. 

 Caille des Philippines, PI. enl. 126. 2. — female. 

 Chinese Quail, Gen. Syn. iv. 783. Edic. pi. 247. — male. 



THE length of this bird is five inches and a half; from the end 

 of the bill to the end of the toes seven. The bill is black, and 

 slender; irides reddish brown; general colour of the plumage above 

 brown, dashed with clay-coloured and black stripes, as in our Quail ; 

 top of the head, the neck, and sides of the body, ash-colour ; from 

 the breast, the belly, vent, thighs, and tail, ferruginous; chin, sides 

 under the eye, and throat, white ; down the chin a streak of black, 

 curving round to the eye, and running under it, on each side ; below 

 this, bounding the ash-colour, a second curved black line, bending 

 upwards to the back part of the first ; legs clay-colour. 



The female has on the top of the head a triangular space, from 

 the root of the bill, of black feathers, with reddish margins; cheeks, 

 chin, and throat, pale rust-colour ; upper parts of the body, sides of 

 the neck, upper tail, and wing coverts brown, varied with black ; 



