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Ooturnix coromandelica, Gmelin. 



VornaOTllar ITaJSlOS. — {{Not generally distinguished by natives from the Grey Quail)* 

 Butteyr, China Butteyr, Uppei India ; Chanac, Nepal ; Bulteyra, Sink ; Law a, 

 Ratnagiri ; Biirgunja, Burgangi, Gurgunji, Deccan ; Kade, (Tamil) ; Chinna 

 Yellichi (Telegu) ; Sipale-huki (Canarese), Mysore : Ngon (Burmese), Pegu.\ 



HE Rain Quail extends at one season or another 

 over the greater portion of the Empire, but its dis- 

 tribution has still to be accurately defined. 



I can find no record of its occurrence in Ceylon or in 

 the southernmost districts of the Peninsula, Tinne- 

 J55i" velly, Madura, Travancore. Northwards of these it 

 !L*" seems to occur almost everywhere in suitable localities 

 up to the lower ranges of the Himalayas, to which, however, 

 and to the northern portions of Bengal, Oudh, the greater 

 portion of the North-Western Provinces and the Punjab, Sind, 

 Western Rajputana, Cutch and Kathiawar, it is almost exclu- 

 sively a rainy-season visitant, though a few pairs may be found 

 throughout the year in grassy spots sparsely dotted about 

 the plains portions of these provinces. 



I do not, however, know of its occurrence in the Punjab trans- 

 Indus, or even in any part of the N.-W. Punjab. Again, it 

 occurs pretty well throughout Lower Bengal, close to Calcutta 

 itself, in Furreedpore, Dacca, Sylhet, and is common in the 

 upper portion of Pegu, in the valley of the Irrawady, as at 

 Thyetmyo, extending at times down to the sea, as at Bassein, 

 whence I have specimens ; but it pretty certainly does not occur 

 in Tenasserim. 



I have no record of its having been found in Aracan, 

 Tipperah, Cachar, or any part of the Assam valley or Assam 

 hill ranges south of the Brahmaputra ; but, as I know 

 it to be common in Chittagong, * it probably occurs in the two 

 former, and possibly in all these. 



* Mr. H. Fasson, writing from Chittagong, says:—" Mr. Martin tells me that the Rain 

 Quail is very common here, and breeds during the rains in grass jungle and about the 

 tea gardens. He found one day three nests within forty yards of each other in his 

 tea garden, containing from four to eight eggs each. These birds get up in marshy 

 lands and from rice fields as well as from grass jungle. 



