Order GALLIFORMES 
Family PHA8IANIDM. 
No. 14. 
EXCALFACTORIA CHINENSIS LINEATA. 
CHESTNUT-BELLIED QUAIL. 
(Plate 12.) 
Oriolfs lineatxjs Scopoli, Del. Flor, et Fauna, Insubr. II,, p. 87 (1786) (*). 
Oriolus lineatus Scopoli, Del Flor. et Fauna, Insubr. II., p. 87 (1786). 
Tetrao manillensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I,, p. 764 (1789). 
Perdix manillensis Latham, Ind. Orn., II., p. 655 (1790). 
Coturnix manillensis Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encycl. Meth., I., p. 221, PI. 97, fig. 4 (1791). 
Tetrao sinensis Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc., XIII., p. 324 (1822). 
Chestnut-bellied Partridge male ; Undulated Partridge female ; Latham, Gen. Hist. B., VIII., 
p. 305 (1823). 
Coturnix nana, Schinz, Nat. Abbild. Vog., p. 277 (1830). 
Synoicus chinensis Gould, B. Austr., V., PL 92 (1848) ; Sturt, Narr. Exped. Centr. Austr., 
App., p. 47 (1849) ; Diggles, B. Austr., II., PI. 96 (1877). 
Coturnix chinensis, Sclater, P.Z.S., p. 221 (1863). 
Excalfactoria chinensis Walden and Layard, Ibis, p. 106 (1872). 
Excalfactoria australis Gould, Handb. B. Austr., II., p. 197 (1865) ; Ramsay, Ibis, p. 279 
(1868) ; id,, P.Z.S,, p. 119 (1876) ; id,, Tab. List. Austr. B,, p. 19 (1888) ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 291 (1889) ; Keartland, B, Melb. Distr., p. 113 (1900). 
Coturnix australis Gray, List Gallinae Brit. Mus., p. 63 (1867). 
Coturnix sinensis Finsch, Neu Guinea, p. 179 (1865) ; Swinhoe, Ibis, p. 348 (1869). 
Synoicus {Excalfactoria) sinensis Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p, 186 (1876). 
Excalfactoria lineata Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXII., p. 253 (1893) ; North, B. 
County Cumberland, p. 107 (1898) ; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs Brit. Mus., I., p. 48 (1901) ; 
Seth-Smith, Bull. B.O.C., XIII., p. 72 (1903) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, 
PI. B vii. (1904) ; Hall, Key B. Austr., p. 73 (1906) ; Mathews, Handl. B. Austral, 
p. 7 (1908). 
Excalfactoria chinensis lineata Robinson and Laverock, Ibis, p. 648 (1900); Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 728 (1901). 
Distribution. Queensland ; New South Wales ; Victoria ; South Australia. (Philippines, 
Palawan, Sulu Islands, Borneo, Java, Sumatra.) 
* Doubtless from Soimerat, Voy. Nouv. Quinine, p. 54, pi. 24 (1776) : Luzon. 
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