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Quails. 
Quails. 
B^- \Y . Shore Baii.y. 
( C (>)iclii(icd from fogc /i). 
The Asiatic Onails are very much unlike their American 
cousins, bein,^' much siuaher and liavin.L;' no crests. There 
appears to be about a score of species and sub-species, of which 
!he lart^er numlier belong' to the family of Hemipodes, which are 
really not true quails. Those that have been imported are : — 
Rock Bush Pcrdicula argoondah. 
Jungle Bush P . asiatica. 
Chinese Painted Excalfactoria cliiiiensis. 
Rain Coturnix coroiuandeUca. 
Greater FiUtton Titntix taiiki. 
Little Button f. dttssumieri. 
Bustard T. pugnax 
Black-throated Bustard T. taigoiir 
The Rock Bush Quail, a pretty httle Indian bird, was 
first bred by Mr. Teschemaker in 1910: see B.N. (N.S.) Vol. 1 
for a very interestint^- illustrated article. Some years ago they 
nested with me late in the autumn, but the male bird destroyed 
the egg"s. I kept these birds in the same aviary as a pair of 
Painted Quails. They agreed very well for a time, roosting 
together in a kind of hollow stptare. and looking very pretty witli 
their four little heads all pointed outwards in different directions, 
hu- when the breeding season came along there were great 
fights amongst them, the hens being quite as pugnacious as the 
cocks, so 1 had to remove the Chinese to save them from being 
" strafed." Their eggs, generally four or five in number, are 
buff. 
riie juNGLK Bush Ouaii,, a very closely allied species, is 
not easily differentiated at the first glance. It also comes from 
India, but is found in a less rocky part of the country. It was, 
I believe, first bred by our Editor in IQ14. but no account of its 
breeding seems to have been published. I have a cock and two 
hens. In the middle of last June I found one of the hens sitting 
upon five eggs. The curious thing about these eggs was that 
they were sj^otted with red. whereas their normal colour is white. 
However, this variation did not interfere with their hatching 
