Order GALLIF0RME8 
No. 10. 
Family PHA8IANID^. 
COTURNIX PECTORALIS. 
STUBBLE QUAIL. 
(Plate 9.) 
CoTURNix PECTORALIS Gould, P.Z.S., p. 8 (1837), New South Wales. 
Austral Partridge Lath., Gen. Hist. B., VIII., p. 308 (1823). 
Coturnix pectoralis Gould, P.Z.S., p. 8 (1837) ; id., Syn. B. Austr., PI. 29 (1837) ; id., B. 
Austr., V., PI. 88 (1848) ; Sturt, Narr. Exped. Centr. Austr., App., p. 46 (1849) ; 
Gould, Handb. B. Austr., II., p. 190 (1865); Higgles, B. Austr., II., PI. 95 (1877); 
Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 185 (1876) ; id., Tab. List. Austr. B., p. 19 (1888) ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 289 (1889) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., 
XXII., p. 244 (1893) ; North, B. County Cumb., p. 106 (1898) ; Keartland, B. Mel- 
bourne Histr., p. 113 (1900) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 721 (1901) ; 
Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs Brit. Mus. I., p, 46 (1901) ; Hall, Key B. Austr., p. 73 (1906) ; 
id.. Useful B. S. Austr., p. 230 (1907) ; Le Souef, Wild Life in Austr., p. 48 (1907) ; 
Berney, Emu, VI., p. 106 (1907); Batey, Emu, VII., p. 13 (1907) ; Mathews, Handl. 
B. Austral., p. 6 (1908) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, p. 190 (1910) ; Littler, Handb. B. 
Tasmania, p. 105 (1910). 
8yrioicus australis Ramsay, Ibis, p. 86 (1865) ; (c/.. Ibis, p. 334, 1866). 
Distribution. Queensland ; New South Wales ; Victoria ; Tasmania ; South Austraha ; 
West Australia. 
Adult nude. Head, neck, entire back and scapulars rufous-brown and black streaked with 
white ; a white streak from the middle of the crown to the hind-neck, another one 
which commences at the base of the bill and goes over the eye and along the sides of 
the neck forming a white eyebrow ; mantle and upper back rufous-brown more broadl^ 
streaked with white, some of the feathers broa^y barred with black, and narrowly 
with rufous bars ; some of the feathers of the back black with very narrow zig-zag 
markings ; scapulars hke the back with grey margins to the tips of the feathers ; 
lower back and rump show more black, with ashy tips to the feathers, the rufous-brown 
broken up into very narrow cross bars ; tail-feathers dark grey, with a white shaft 
streak and white bars on both webs towards the margins ; lesser wing-coverts, median 
and primary-coverts ashy-grey with paler shaft-lines ; primary and secondary-quills 
ashy-grey with dark shaft-lines somewhat paler on the inner webs ; lores, sides 
of face, chin and throat rufous, with a few black dots from the gape, which indicate 
a line along the sides of the neck and meet on the middle of the lower throat ; the 
feathers on the chest and breast almost entirely black and some with white outer 
webs, the feathers of the lower breast white with a broad streak of black down the 
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