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the sides; the back more of a red brown, and the wings black, 

 banded with white ; the breast sometimes ferruginous, but at a later 

 period marked with transverse bars of black and white : the throat 

 is black in the males, generally white in the females. 



These Quails are frequently kept tame, and the females trained 

 to fight with each other by the natives of the country. The superior 

 courage of this sex has given rise to a common Malay proverb, in 

 which a hen-pecked husband is compared to a Puyu, which name 

 the bird goes by in Sumatra. 



The Chinese and this Species are the two best known throughout 

 the Eastern Islands. The latter is only trained for fighting, and is 

 most frequently domesticated, so as to become as tame as the Com- 

 mon Fowl.— Sir T. C. Raffles. 



80— BLACK-NECKED QUAIL. 



Perdix nio-ricollis, Jnd. Orn. ii. 656. 



Tetrao nigricollis, Gm. Lin. i. 767. 



Coturnix Madagascariensis, Bris. i. 252. t. 24. 2. Id. 8vo. i. 70. 



Hemipodius nigvicollis, Turnix Cognan, Temm. Pig. ty Gall. 8vo. iii. 619. 



La Caille de Madagascar, Buf. ii. 479. PI. enl. 171. 



Black-necked Quail, Gen. Syn. iv. 791. 



SIZE of our Quail. Bill cinereous; upper parts and sides of 

 the head, and the neck, white and black, with a mixture of rufous; 

 hind parts of the neck, and upper parts of the body, variegated with 

 ash-colour, rufous, and black, the last in streaks; in some parts 

 broader, forming spots ; wing coverts irregularly mixed, rufous and 

 ash-colour; besides which, are some irregular spots of yellowish 

 white, most of them accompanied with a black streak ; scapulars 

 partly the same, except a whitish streak on some of the feathers ; 

 chin and fore part of the neck black, ending in a point on the breast. 



The breast itself, sides of the body, belly, thighs, and vent, 



cinereous ; sides of the breast rufous ; under tail coverts striped with 



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