Il6 THE JUNGLE BUSH-QUAIL. 



The males are rather larger than the females (and exhibit, 

 moreover, a small blunt tubercle, representing a spur, on the 

 back of the tarsus), but the differences are so small, that it is 

 useless to give the dimensions separately, the more so that 

 birds from different localities vary a good deal in size, and the 

 females from some places are quite as large as the males from 

 others. 



Length, 6*3 to J'2 ; expanse, io*o to in; wing, 3*0 to 

 3*5 ; tail from vent, 1*5 to 178 ; tarsus, 0*94 to ro ; bill from 

 gape, 0*5 to 0*6 ; weight, 2 ozs. to 2*85 ozs. 



The legs and feet vary from light waxy orange, through bright 

 orange to yellowish red ; the irides from light to hazel brown ; 

 the bill is black or dusky, often with a reddish tinge at the 

 base, which occasionally spreads more or less over the rest of 

 the bill. In two or three I have recorded the bill as slaty at the 

 base, in others the entire bill was bluish black. The dimensions 

 and colours above given (except perhaps those in the last 

 preceding sentence) are those of adults ; the young are much 

 smaller, and I have an impression that they have the legs 

 rather paler and pinker, and the bills paler. 



The plate is good, but in neither of the figures in the fore- 

 ground are the legs sufficiently brightly coloured ; the red 

 about the face and throat of the male should be more of a 

 chestnut. In the female the long white superciliary stripe, 

 which is just as conspicuous as in the male, has been omitted. 

 The figure in the background is a young female, but the 

 pale buff superciliary stripe is too short, and the conspicuous 

 whitish shaft stripes of the breast and sides of the breast, 

 which this figure was specially intended to illustrate, are barely 

 indicated. 



It is a pity, too, that the female has her back turned to the 

 spectator ; she has the chin and throat like the male, but the 

 whole of the rest of the lower parts spotless, and of the same 

 colour as is shown on the flanks. 



The species is wrongly designated Pevdicnla cambaiensis on 

 the plate. 



