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COROMANDEL QUAIL. 



Considerably inferior in size to the common 

 Quail : the male has the head black : the crown 

 rufous yellow: on the throat is a deep triangular 

 black patch, which extends upwards to the ears : 

 the superciliary band, and one on the middle of 

 the head, are similar to those of the common 

 species: the feathers of the neck, the back, the 

 scapulars, and the rump, have a broad lanceolated 

 reddish white spot in their middle, bordered with 

 black ; the rest of the feather is grey-brown, with 

 black spots, marked with narrow red lines: the 

 wing-coverts are grey, striped with yellow bands, 

 which are edged with black : the secondaries and 

 quills are grey : on the fore-part of the neck is a 

 broad longitudinal black band, extending to the 

 breast ; the latter, and also the rest of the under 

 parts of the body, are whitish, with a deep black 

 longitudinal stripe in the middle of each feather, 

 slightly bordered on each side with white: the 

 beak is brown, and the feet are yellowish. The 

 female differs from the male in having the throat 

 of a rufous cast, or whitish, slightly tipped with 

 dusky: a narrow band of dusky black extends 

 along the front of the neck to the breast: the 

 under parts of the body are whitish red, irregularly 

 marked with black spots. The young have not 

 the triangular black patch on the throat. 



This inhabits the Coromandel coast. 



