. Indian sporting birds . between cock and hen, theformer having a blue-grey breast and sides, and the centre of theunder-parts rich chestnut, while those handsome colours are wellset off by the characteristic black anchor-mark on a white groundon the throat of the true quails, the colours in this species beingas distinct as in the rain-quail. The young cock is at first brownbelow like the hen, but gets his full plumage in little over amonth. It is only when a pair have fledged young that thesequail are seen in coveys, otherwise they are found singly orin pairs. The cock is much attached to hi
. Indian sporting birds . between cock and hen, theformer having a blue-grey breast and sides, and the centre of theunder-parts rich chestnut, while those handsome colours are wellset off by the characteristic black anchor-mark on a white groundon the throat of the true quails, the colours in this species beingas distinct as in the rain-quail. The young cock is at first brownbelow like the hen, but gets his full plumage in little over amonth. It is only when a pair have fledged young that thesequail are seen in coveys, otherwise they are found singly orin pairs. The cock is much attached to his mate, and feeds her withinsects ; besides the chirping alarm-note when flashed, he has adistinct trisyllabled call, tee-iuee-wee. Like the rain-quail, this bird does not leave the IndianEmpire (although it has a wide range outside it to the south-east, even to China) but is locally migratory within it. Itis found at one time or another almost all over India andBurma, and in Ceylon, but it is essentially a bird of moist.
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