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Common in the Sabaragamuwa district. It is more numerous in the 

 south-western hill groups than in other parts of the Island, this 

 part being its headquarters ; it frequents all the bamboo and 

 chena scrub, secondary jungle, and primaeval forest from close to 

 Oalle up to the highest parts of the Morowak Korale. I did not 

 meet with it in the maritime districts of the south-east, but it is 

 doubtless found at some little distance inland, as it occurs in the 

 Friar's Hood district of the Eastern Province. 



121. Ortygornis Pondiceriana, Gmelin. — The grey Par- 

 tridge. Oussa Watuwa, Sink. Francolinus Pontieerrinus, Gmelin, 

 — Layard, Annals Natural History, 1854, volume 14, page 107 ; 

 iKelaart, Prodromus Faunae Zeylanica, page 131. 



Northern and Western Provinces. Common from Jaffna along the 

 west coast down to Puttalam, not found at the east coast however ; 

 tolerably numerous near Colombo about the Cinnamon Gardens, 

 where I imagine it has introduced itself by escaping from con- 

 finement, Layard, lor. cit. f says it is found at Tangalla ; I have 

 how r ever not heard of it from that part, and did not meet with it 

 further round to the south- east. Kelaart procured it at Nuwara 

 Eliya. 



122. Excalfatoria Chinensts, Linn.— The Chinese 

 Quail. Blue-breasted Quail. " Wenella-watuwa," Sink. Cotur- 

 nix Chinensis, Linn. — Layard, Annals Natural History, 1654, 

 page 107, volume 14, page 107. 



Western and Southern Provinces ; abundant in all the paddy fields 

 of the south-west, and extreme south as far round as Maiara, not 

 extending far inland however; common in swampy fernbrakes 

 in the Cinnamon Gardens near Colombo and in like situations 

 down the West Coast. 



123. Tornix Taigoor, St/kes.— The Black-breasted Quail. 

 "Bain Quail." Panduru Watuwa, Sink. Turnix Occellatus, 

 Sc op. -Layard, Annals Natural History, 1854, volume 14, page 

 107; Coturnix Coromandelica, Gmelin. — Kelaart (erroneously) 

 Prodromus Faunas Zeylanica, page 131. 



Throughout all the low -country north and south, where the features 

 of the land suit its habits. Abundant in the north-west, and 

 tolerably common on the other coast near Trincomalee; inhabits low 

 copses, overgrown clearings, &c, in the low hills and intervening 

 flats of the south-west. It is not numerous in the Hambantota 

 district, being probably found more in the open "park" country 

 than near the sea. . 



Note. — Layard, loc. cit., says this species is abundant in the 

 south, and the variety which Mr. Blyth designates as T.Bengalen- 



