368 MADAGASCAR QUAIL. 



are varied with longitudinal brown bands, edged 

 outwardly with white spots, surrounded by black: 

 the quills are brown ; and the tail-feathers are grey. 

 Native place unknown. 



MADAGASCAR QUAIL. 

 (Coturnix Perlata.) 



Co, corpore supra castaneo^ferrugineo Jasciis lineisque longitudi" 

 nalibus albidis, subtus maculis rotundatis albis conspersOj gula 

 nigra, vitta supra oculos maxillarique albis. 



Quail with the body above rusty-chesnut, with whitish longi- 

 tudinal fasciae and lines ; beneath sprinkled with rounded 

 white spots j the throat black ; a stripe above the eyes, and 

 the maxillae, white. 



Coturnix perlata. Temm. Gall, hid. p. 739. 



Perdix striata. Lath. Ind, Orn. 2. 654. 36. 



Tetrao striatus. GmeL Syst. Nat. 1. 763. 53. 



La grand Caille de Madagascar. Sonner. Vo2/» Ind. 2. l6g. pL 

 98. 



Caille a ventre perlee. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. p. 470. 

 Madagascar Quail. Lat/u Gen. Syn. 4. 788. 32. 



This beautiful species is distinguished from the 

 rest of the Quails by its superior strength of beak, 

 the upper mandible of which is rather elongated. 

 The malOj only is known, and was discovered by 

 Sonnerat : it is about double the size of the com- 

 mon species : the top of its head, hind part of the 

 neck, back and rump, are of a reddish-brown, each 



