Order GALLIFOBMES 
Family PHA8IANIDM. 
No. 11. 
SYNOICUS AUSTRALIS AUSTRALIS. 
BROWN QUAIL. 
(Plate 10.) 
Perdix australis Latham, Ind. Orn. SuppL, p. LXII. (1801), New Holland (New South 
Wales). 
New Holland Quail Latham, Gen. Syn. SuppL, II., p. 283 (1801) ; id., Gen. Hist. B., VIII., 
p. 306 (1823). 
Perdix australis Latham, Ind. Orn. SuppL, p. LXII. (1801); Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. 
Nat., XXV., p. 262 (1817) ; id., Gal. des Ois., II., p. 46, PL 215 (1825) ; Thienemann, 
Fortpflanz. ges, Vogel, p. 35 (1845). 
Coturnix australis Temminck, Pig. et Gall., III., pp. 474, 740 (1815) ; Gould, Syn. B. Austr., 
PL 28 (1837). 
? Synoicus sordidus Gould, P.Z.S., p. 33 (1847) ; id., B. Austr., V., PL 91 (1848) ; id., Handb. 
B. Austr., II., p. 195 (1865) ; Ramsay, Tab. List. Austr. B., p. 19 (1888). 
Synoecus sordidus Mathews, Handl. B. Austral., p. 7 (1908). 
Synoicus australis Gould, B. Austr., V., PL 89 (1848) ; id., Handb. B. Austr., II., p. 193 
(1865) ; Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 185 (1876) ; Higgles, B. Austr., II., PL 96 
(1877) ; Ramsay, Tab. List. Austr. B., p. 19 (1888) ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, 
p. 289 (1889) ; Heartland, B. Melb. Distr., p. 113 (1900). 
Synoecus australis Mueller, P.Z.S., p. 280 (1869) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXII., 
p. 247 (1893); North, B. County Cumberland, p. 107 (1898); Campbell, Nests and Eggs 
Austr. B., p. 724 (1901) ; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs Brit. Mus., I., p. 46 (1901) ; Sharpe, 
Hist. Coll. Brit. Mus. Birds, p. 146 (1906) ; Hall, Key B. Austr., p. 73 (1906) ; 
Batey, Emu, VII., p. 14 (1907) ; Mathews, Handl. B. Austral., p. 7 (1908). , \ 
Distribution. South of a line drawn from Brisbane to Shark’s Bay (roughly speaking). 
Adult male. Brown, more or less rufous or vinous, washed with bluish-ash colour, and 
with narrow and evanescent shaft-lines of white to the feathers of the back. Head 
brown, mottled with broad black markings, not very distinct, but more so on the sides 
of the crown, the centre of the latter being rather more vinous and showing narrow 
white shaft-lines which are continued to the nape, and appear in a lesser degree on the 
hind-neck and mantle, which have a more vinous tint, with ill-defined wavy blackish 
bars, most of the feathers bluish-ash colour at the ends, imparting an ashy shade to 
the upperparts ; scapulars, remainder of back and upper tail-coverts similarly 
shaded and marked, the white shaft-lines scarcely perceptible, but the black cross- 
bars more distinct ; wing-coverts rufous-brown, with indistinct blackish bars, but no 
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