NEW-GUINEA QUAIL. 



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Quail with the body above brown, beneath paler ; with the edges 

 of the wing-coverts yellowish 3 the quills black. 



Coturnix Novae Guineae. Temm. Gall, Ind.p. y44. 



Perdix Novse Guinese. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 655. 39. 



Tetrao Novse Guineae. Gmel, Syst. Nat, 1. 764. 56. 



La Caille de la Nouvelle Guinea. Sonner, Voy, Ind, 2, 170. pi, 

 105. — Temm. Pig, et Gall. 3. p. 524. 



New Guinea Quail. Lath, Gen. Syn, 4. 789- 35. 



The following concise description, accompanied 

 by a figure, is given by Sonnerat of this rare spe- 

 cies : it is about half the size of the common Quail: 

 the whole of the plumage is brown, brightest on 

 the head and belly, and palest on the back and 

 wings : the coverts of the latter are edged with 

 yellow, of a dull and obscure hue: the quills are 

 black : the irides and the feet are greyish. It in- 

 habits New Guinea. 



