PERDICULA ASIATIC A. 
(THE JUNGLE BUSH-QUAIL.) 
1 erdix asiaticus, Latham, Inch Orn. ii. p. 649 (1790). 
( oturnix pentah, Sykes, Trans. Zool. Soc. ii. p. 19, pi. iii. (1885). 
Perdicula cambayensis (Lath.), Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 581 (1864) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 160 ; 
Beavan, Ibis, 1868, p. 386; Ball, Str. Feath. 1874, p. 427; Hume, Nests and Eggs, 
m. p. 546 (1875); Fairbank, Str. Feath. 1876, p. 262. 
Perdicula argoondah (Sykes), Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiv. p. 107. 
Perdicula^ asiatica, Gould, B. of Asia, pt. 15, pis. xii., xiii. (1863); Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, 
P- 4/0; Davidson and Wender, Str. Feath. 1878, vii. p. 87; Hume, t. c. p. 158; Ball, 
t. c. p. 225. 
Perdrix ronsse-gorge, Temm. PI. Col. 447; Spurred Quail in India. Juhar, Auriconnai 
(Beavan) in Manbhum; Girza, Hind.; Girza-pitta, Telugu (Jerdon). 
nude and female. Length 6‘5 to 6*7 inches; wing 3-0 to 3-25 ; tail 1-3 to 1-5; tarsus 1-0 to 1-1 ; middle toe 
am claw 0-95 to 1*05; bill to gape 0*5, height at nostril 0*25. 
ns rownish red or dark red-brown; bill dark horn; lower mandible bluish, with dusky tip; legs and feet dark yellow- 
red ; claws tipped with dusky. 
lop of the head dark brown, paling on the occiput, hind neck, and upper surface into cinereous brown, and bounded by a 
conspicuous white stripe passing from the bill over to the nape ; between this stripe and the eye a supercilium 
0W the e 3' e a sil0rt stripe, and the chin and throat dark rufous ; hind neck and upper back with buff mesial lines’ 
and crossed with heavy pencillings of black ; lower back and rump crossed with black-edged wavy buff barrings • 
scapulars, tert lals, and wing-coverts marked with bold fulvous-yellow mesial stripes and the inner webs with large 
ac v pa c es and rufeseent crossings; quills brown, barred with yellowish rufeseent, chiefly on the outer webs • 
an crossed with narrow alternate wavy bars of rufeseent yellow and black; cheeks white, with black edgings; 
wer ore neck, chest, and sides of breast white, with bold black bars, blending into pale rufous ou the lower 
an is, abdomen, and under tail-coverts, the centre of the breast being rufeseent whitish. 
lemale. Ills paler red than that of the male ; bill somewhat paler ; legs and feet yellowish red. 
ui ous supercilium larger than the male, continued upon the forehead and back to the end of the white stripe ; throat 
more intense rufous, this colour frequently joining the rufous spot beneath the eye ; strim on the hind neck faint ; 
mark" . 68011 tlle 8ca P ulars > tertials, and wing-coverts less bold and handsome, but the black and rufous-yellow 
isu ungs similar ; fore neck and its sides and entire under surface uniform rufeseent isabelline , paling down the 
con re o the breast, and pervaded with a greyish hue on the chest. 
Unlftlin^nkm! 6 ; bU1 reddish brown at tbe base > becoming duskier at the tip ; legs and feet pale yellowish, 
head-feath a§6 i 1 ”^ haS the upper surface mucb as in the adult > lmt the stripes on the back much broader ; the 
wantine • the Al 5 the white Stripe above the °I es ve U broad ; the red supercilium, cheeks, and throat 
featherVof the'tk 6 r r SUrfaCe is cinere0U8 rufeSCent ’ brigWest on the flanks and under tail-coverts, and the 
on the Chest ’ • v n0clt ’ and chest with wbite mesial lines ’ which exhmd partly down the flanks as well ; 
with dark brown ° f bkck bal ' S; a sligLl Wasb ° f rufous ou the chiu ; the cheeka whitish, striated 
chest begin to assume iS® f 1 ® ruf ° US ° n the chin and thr ° afc increases slightly, and the fore neck and 
with the stm-remainin^rnf ? ™ th rufous : these mcrease lu intensifc y witb age, and are found mingled 
g rufous feathers on the chest, the flanks being at this time very faintly barred. 
have 6 thern them ° f 7° ? ale evidentl y decrease with age ; but it does not follow that the youngest birds 
on the chest k P ro r‘ 0 uiiced ; for a specimen before me with scarcely any rufous on the chin or trace of barring 
advanced on the che^ 7th na t rr ° Wer 8tri *’ both ° n th ® back and sea P u]ars > than another, considerably more 
