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rilASIANID^E. 
Family PHASIANID^E. 
Genus COTURNIX Bonnaterre. 
Coturnix Bonnaterre, Tab]. Encycl. Meth., Ornith. vol. i. pp. lxxxvii, 
210, 1701. Type (by tautonymy): C. communis Bonn. = Tetrao 
coturnix Linn6. 
Coturnix pectoralis Gould. 
Distr. —Australia generally, Tasmania. 
Coturnix pectoralis pectoralis Gould. (22-244.) 
Coturnix pectoralis Gould, Synops. Birds Austr. pt. ii. pi. 20, 1887 : 
New South Wales. (Fig. Gould, Austr. v. pi. 88 ; Math. pi. 0.) 
Distr. —Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, and 
South Australia. 
Coturnix pectoralis praetermi3sa Mathows. 
Coturnix pectoralis prcetermissa Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. 
p. 178, 1912: Broome Hill, South-West Australia. 
Distr. —Sou th-Wes t A us tralia. 
Coturnix novaezealandise Q. & G. (22-245.) 
Coturnix novcezea land ice Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. de l’Astrul., Zool. 
vol. i. 1830, p. 242 : Baie Chouraki, North Island, New Zealand. 
(Fig. Buller, 1st ed. pi. 18, 2nd ed. pi. 23, Voy. Astrol. pi. 24, 
iig. 1, and Ereb. & Terr. pi. 8, and Kothsch. Extinct Birds, pi. 28.) 
Distr. —New Zealand, formerly both Islands. Nosv extinct. 
Genus YPSILOPHORUS Mathews. 
Ypsilophorus Mathews, Austral Av. Hoc. vol. i. p. 127, 1012. New 
name for Synoicus Gould, Bds. Austr. pt. 12 (vol. v. pi. 89), 
1843, same type, not Synoicum Phipps, 1774. Type (by mono- 
typy) : Yerdix australis Latham. 
Ypsilophorus plumbeus (Salvad.). 
Synoicus plumbeus Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 2nd Ser. vol. xiv. 
p. 152, 1804: Vakena Mts., New Guinea. 
Distr .—New Guinea. 
Ypsilophorus ypsilophorus (Bose). 
Distr. —Australia generally and Tasmania. 
Ypsilophorus ypsilophorus ypsilophorus (Bose). (22 247.) 
Coturnix ypsilophorus Bose, Journ. d’Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. ii. 
No. 20, p. 297. pi. 30, 1702: no loc.== Tasmania (Frederick 
Henry Bay of Tasman) = Marion Bay. (Fig. Gould, Austr v 
pi. 00.) 
Synoicus dieinenensis Gould, Birds Austr. pt. 20, 1847 : Tasmania. 
Distr. —Tasmania. 
