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tail, pale dirty grey, croffed with black bands : greater quills 

 brown : legs black. 

 Inhabits Madagascar.. 



Place. 



La petite Cailk de Gingi, Son. Voy Ind. vol. ii. p. 172. 



HP HIS is one third lefs than our Quail. 



The head is black ; 

 the crown rufous yellow; through the eye a ftreak of the 

 fame : the throat is white, terminated by a black ftripe : the fore 

 part of the neck, breaft, and belly, reddifh yellow, ftreaked with 

 black, and each ftreak bounded with white on the fides: from 

 the throat to the belly is a zigzag band of black : the hind part 

 of the neck pare rufous, W/ith a longitudinal yellowifh ftreak on 

 each feather, bounded with black on the fides : back, rump, and 

 leffer wing coverts, rufous chefhut ; on each feather a yellowifh 

 ftreak, croffed by lines of the fame, which are bounded on each 

 fide with black : quills brown. 



The female is the fame above j. more dull beneath : the throat 

 white,, bounded with black : fore part of the neck reddifh yel- 

 low j each feather ftreaked with white, -and marked with two 

 round black fpots on the fides : the belly is the fame, but croffed. 

 with bands of black inftead of fpots. 



Inhabits the coaft of Coromandel. 



34- 

 COROMANDEL 



Description. 



Female, 



Place. 



La Caille de la Nouvelle Guinee, Sou. Voy. Ini. 170. pi. 105. 



35- 

 NEW GUINEA 



11J A L F the fize of the Common Quail. General colour brown, description. 



brighteft on the head and belly : wing coverts edged with, 

 dirty yellow : quills black : irides and legs greyifh. 



Inhabits New Guinea. Tlacb, . 



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