. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. ]\lr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on the Genus Cotuniix. 171 islands surrounding the coast, and the results are seen in the many male birds from South Africa and Southern Europe &c. in which the white parts on the sides of the head and throat are more or less suffused with the bright rufous-clicstnut of the resident bird. The females of course are not to be distinguished. I may add that Indian examples of C. coturnix are, generally speaking, very pure bred and seldom show any trac
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. ]\lr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on the Genus Cotuniix. 171 islands surrounding the coast, and the results are seen in the many male birds from South Africa and Southern Europe &c. in which the white parts on the sides of the head and throat are more or less suffused with the bright rufous-clicstnut of the resident bird. The females of course are not to be distinguished. I may add that Indian examples of C. coturnix are, generally speaking, very pure bred and seldom show any trace of rufous on the sides of the head and throat. There are two specimens in the British Museum of the curious melanistic variety of C. coturnix which occurs in Spain. They were obtained by Mr. Howard Saunders in the marshy neighbourhood of Valencia. In the male the general colour of the upper parts is black, with narrow buff or rufous cross bars; the pattern formed by the Avide golden-buff shaft-streaks on the feathers of the mantle and on each side of the body is normal; the greater part of the sides of the head, the chin, and throat are black, with here and there a white feather 5 the chest-feathers are mottled with black, and the feathers of the sides and flanks are black dotted with rufous and with a wide white shaft-stripe down the middle of each. In the female all the underparts are suffused with dull -'>-g^^^^^^^ TE. I. I. Coturnix coturnix^ $ ad. II. Cotui"nixjaponica, 2 ad. Coturnix japonica. (Woodcut, fig. II.) Coturnix ruh/aria japonica, Temm. ifc Sclil. Faun. .Tap. p. 10.'5, pi. Ixi. (1842). Coturnix japoniat, Blakist. Ibis, 1802, p. ."^29. Orti/f/>o7i'cofnr), Radde, Reise Ost-8ib. ii. p. 306 (1803). Coturnix mufri, Dybowski, J. f. O. 1868, p. 337 (descr. nulla) ; I'rjev. J. f. O. 1872, p. 138. 12. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and ap
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