BUFF-BREASTED QUAIL. 
with black and white; chin grey with silvery-white shaft-streaks ; throat similar but 
somewhat darker; breast, sides of breast, and sides of abdomen ochreous-grey ; abdomen 
cream-white; thighs similar but rather darker ; under tail-coverts buffy-white ; sides 
of body cinnamon-rufous with a tuft of grey feathers in the middle like the axillaries 
and under wing-coverts, the greater series of the latter tinged with cinnamon ; under- 
Burface of flight-quills glossy-grey ; lower aspect of tail cinnamon-grey ; eyes yellow ; bill 
dull blue; culmen brownish; legs yellow. Total length 210 mm. : culmen 18, wing 
109, tail 41, tarsus 26. Collected at Coen, North Queensland, on the 1st of February, 
1922. 
Nest. Ovate, with the entrance at the side ; placed in a shallow depression in the ground 
in short fine grass, between a stool of a few stalks of long grass, and a small shrub ; com¬ 
posed of soft, dry, narrow blades of long grass, and stalks of fine grasses. Outside 
measurements: width 54 inches, depth 5 inches, length 6 inches ; entrance 3f inches 
wide by 3 inches deep ; Inside: width 4 inches, depth 4 inches, length 4f inches. The 
depression in which the nest was placed was one inch. 
Eggs. Clutch four. Roundish in shape, much compressed and pointed at one end, forming 
quite a dumpy pipiform shape. Ground-colour whitish, minutely speckled, spotted and 
blotched all over with markings of reddish-brown, bluish-grey and black, the last two 
colours being predominant. Shell fine, and the surface rather glossy. Measurements 
28 by 23-24 mm. 
Breeding-season. March. 
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