THE BIRDS OF SINGAPORE ISLAND 
with brownish olive and brown, the marking's being often 
more densely congreg:ated at one end, forming a zone", are 
deposited in a mere apology for a tiest in the grass on the 
ground. 
The nestlings are tiny balls of fluffy down, pale below but 
brown above with markings both lighter and darker than the 
ground colour. 
The breeding season in Singapore appears to be from 
May to July. 
The bustard-quail seems to be a very silent bird although 
in the breeding season the females call to the male with a note 
which is best described as a soft booming and which without 
doubt has a ventriioqnial effect. 
The food, like that of the blue-breasted quaih consists of 
seeds and insects and like this latter bird the bustard-quail is a 
toothsome morsel on toast although we should preft-*r onrs 
to be obtained in a locality where they are more numerous and 
therefore more easily to be spared from the country-side than 
in Singapore. 
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