. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 230 PHASIANID^. g. Chin and tliroat brick-colour or cliestnut. e'. Throat cluU brick-colour. Size smaller: â wing' ca. 4-1 pectoralis J , p. 244. /'. Throat bright brick-colour or chest- nut. Size larger : wing ca. 46. ... novec-zealaticHa t^, p. 245. //. Chin and throat white or buff, without a black band down the centre. (/'. Chest-feathers without a submargiual black band on either web. a". Ground-colour of the wing-coverts sandy buff; underparts pale buff. coromandellca 5';P-241. V. Ground-colour of the wing-coverts blackish grey; underp
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 230 PHASIANID^. g. Chin and tliroat brick-colour or cliestnut. e'. Throat cluU brick-colour. Size smaller: â wing' ca. 4-1 pectoralis J , p. 244. /'. Throat bright brick-colour or chest- nut. Size larger : wing ca. 46. ... novec-zealaticHa t^, p. 245. //. Chin and throat white or buff, without a black band down the centre. (/'. Chest-feathers without a submargiual black band on either web. a". Ground-colour of the wing-coverts sandy buff; underparts pale buff. coromandellca 5';P-241. V. Ground-colour of the wing-coverts blackish grey; underparts rufous buff or dull chestnut delegorguei $, p. 243. h'. Chest-feathers with a subraarglnal black band on either web. c". Black bands on the feathers of the breast not confluent in the median line but separated by a buff isthmus. Size smaller: wing ca. 4-1 ^;ec^wa/?s 5, p. 244. d". The black bands on the feathers of the breast separated only by the pale shaft. Size larger: wing ca. 4"6 nov(e-zeal(md{(e J , p. ^^^S^ IT. 1. Coiurnix cotnrnix, J ad. I. II. C. japonica, 2 ^d.* Perhaps no species of Game Birds have been more confused, and their changes of plumage less understood, than the Common Quail {Coturniv ) and its near ally the Japanese Quail (C japonica); and I am pleased to say that I have now at last discovered definite and well-marked characters by which both the males and females of these two species may be readily distinguished, Avhile the intermediate forms are, as I shall presently show, undoubtedly the results of interbreeding. CoturnLv japonka is the resident bird found in Japan and China, and sometimes occurs in India and Burmah, as there are * These -woodcuts as well as the following remarks are reproduced from Ann. Mag. N. H. 1892, x. pp. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may
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