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CHINESE QUAIL. 

 (Coturnix excalfactoria.) 



Co. corpore supra Jiisco maculis nigris et lineis albis consperso^ 

 jvgulo nigro arcu albo, ventre medio castaneo. (Femina 5M^£?r- 

 ciliis temporibiisque rujis, guld alba, corpore supra cinerascente-^ 

 riifo nigroque vario, subtus cinerascente-rtifo, arcubus nigris 

 undulato.) 



Quail with the body above brown, sprinkled with black spots 

 and white lines; the jugulum black, with a white arch ; the 

 middle of the belly chesnut. {Female with the eyebrow and 

 temples red ; the throat white; the body above greyish, varied 

 with rufous and black 3 beneath greyish rufous, undulated with 

 black arcs.) 



Coturnix excalfactoria. Temm. Gall, Ind. p. 742. 



Coturnix Philippensis. Briss. Orn. 1. 254. 17. pi. 25. f, 1. male. 



Perdix chinensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 652. 29. male. 



Perdix manillensis. Lath. Ind. Orn, 2. 655. 40. female. 



Tetrao chinensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 765. I9. male. 



Tetrao manillensis. Gmel. S?/st. Nat. 1. 764. 57. female. 



La f raise ou Caille de la Chine. Biijf. Ois. 2. 478. male. — Buff*. 



PI. Enl. 126./. 2. female. 

 La petit Caille de I'ile de Lugon. Sonner, Voy. Ind. 54, pi* 24* 



female. 



Caille fraise. Temm, Pig. et Gall. 3. p. 5l6. 

 Manilla Quail. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 79O. 36. female. 

 Chinese Quail. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 783. malQ.—Edw, Glean, p. 

 247. male. 



This elegant little species measures only four 

 inches in length : the male has a triangular deep 

 black spot on the throat : from the base of the 

 beak extends a white whisker, surrounded by 

 black: below the black on the throat is a pure 



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