CONTENTS. 



Popular Name, 



The Eastern Painted Bush Quail 

 The Common or Grey Quail" 

 The Black-Breasted or Rain Quail 



The Blue-Breasted or Painted Quail 



The Indian Bustard Quail 



The Indo-Malayan Bustard Quail 



The Burmo-Malayan Button Quail 



The Indian Button Quail 



The Little Button Quail 



The Nicobar Button Quail 



Baillon's Crake 



The Little Crake 



The Spotted Crake 



The Ruddy Crake 



Elwes's Crake 



The Brown and Ashy Crake 



The Whitey-Brown Crake 



The Malayan Banded Crake 



The Banded Crake 



The Andamanese Banded Crake ... 

 The Blue-Breasted Banded Rail... 

 The Andamanese Banded Rail ... 



The Indian Water Rail 

 The Water Rail 



Scientific Name. Page. 



Microperdix ' 2 blewitti 

 Coturnix communis... 

 Coturnix coromande- 



lica 13 

 Excalfactoria chinen- 



sis 14 

 Turnix taigoor 1 3 

 Turnix plumbipes 1 6 ... 

 Turnix maculosa 1 7 ... 

 Turnix joudera 1 8 

 Turnix dussumieri ... 

 Turnix albiventris ... 

 Porzana bailloni ' 9 ... 

 Porzana parva 

 Porzana maruetta ... 

 Porzana fusca 

 Porzana bicolor 

 Porzana akool 

 Porzana cinerea 

 Rallina 20 fasciata ... 

 Rallina* » euryzonoi- 



des 

 Rallina 22 canningi ... 

 Hypotaenidia striata* 3 

 Hypotsenidia obscuri- 



ora 24 

 Rallus indicus 

 Rallus aquaticus 25 ... 



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12. Wrongly Perdicula on Plate. 



13. ,, coromandeliea on Plate. 



14. ,, sinensis on Plate. 



15. ,, pugnax on Plate. 



16. ,, plumibes on Plate. 



17. , , niaculosus on Plate. 



18. ,, jondera on Plate. 



19. Wrongly Crex baillonii on Plate. 



20. ,, Porzana on Plate. 



21. ,, Porzana on Plate. 



22. ,, Euryzona on Plate. 



23. ,, Hypotanidia striates on Plate 



24. ,, Hypotaenidia obscurioria on 



Plate. 



25. This species is so close to indicus, that we have not thought it necessary to give a 



separate figure 



