NEW HOLLAND QUAIL. 



373 



This bird is abundant in the Manilla and Philip- 

 pine Islands, and in China is amazingly numerous. 

 The inhabitants of the latter place bribed them, and 

 keep them in cages, for the singular purpose of 

 warming their hands in the winter : they also rear 

 them for the purpose of fighting in the same 

 manner that cocks are used in this country. 



NEW HOLLAND QUAIL. 

 (Coturnix Australis.) 



Co. corpore supra castaneo-nehuloso^ nigro striata, scapis penna- 

 rum albo lineatis, subtus cinerascente'rufo, lunulis nigris tranS' 

 versim striatis, (Femina coloribus dilutioribus.) 



Quail with the body above clouded chesnut, striated with black; 

 the shafts of the feathers striped with white ; beneath grey- 

 isii-red, striated with transverse black lunules. {Female with 

 the colours paler.) 



Coturnix Australis, Temm. Gall. Ind, p, 740. 



Perdix Australis. Lath, Ind. Orn. Sup. Ixii. 3. 



CaiUe Australe. 3>mm. Pig. et Gall. 3. 474. 



New Holland Quail. Lath. Syn. Sup, II. 283. ^ 



This species is concisely described by Latham 

 in his second Supplement, but more amply by 

 Temminck, who also gives an account of the fe- 

 male. The male is above seven inches in length : 

 the forehead, the space round the eyes, the beak, 

 and the throat, are dirty white: the top of the 

 head and the nape are dusky, with a white spot 



