. Indian sporting birds . pinkish tinge over the abdomen,instead of only on the breast and along the flanks as in thetypical form, greater extension of the white on the head of thecock at the expense of the black face and crown, and finallysmaller size, w^hich barely reaches two and a quarter ounces,while in the other race it runs from this to over three. It wassaid by Blewitt, the sender of the first specimens to Hume, tobe delicate and well-flavoured. He also found that it went in coveys of sometimes more thana dozen, living in forest, grass, and scrub on hilly ground. Henoted, from native i
. Indian sporting birds . pinkish tinge over the abdomen,instead of only on the breast and along the flanks as in thetypical form, greater extension of the white on the head of thecock at the expense of the black face and crown, and finallysmaller size, w^hich barely reaches two and a quarter ounces,while in the other race it runs from this to over three. It wassaid by Blewitt, the sender of the first specimens to Hume, tobe delicate and well-flavoured. He also found that it went in coveys of sometimes more thana dozen, living in forest, grass, and scrub on hilly ground. Henoted, from native information, the breeding-season as Novemberto January, but Thompson gives it as June and July, soon afterthe rains begin, the young flying in September. The factprobably is that this race and the typical one both breed atany time which local conditions make convenient for note, however, that the male in the courting-timeoften repeats a loud single note, is worth quoting, and also his • Perdicula on HUMES BUSH-QUAIL 259 experience in finding these birds frequenting long grass on thebanks of nullas and rivers. Blewitt gave the notes as moresoft and melodious than that of the others, by which others presumably he meant the thick-billed bush-quails ; so this neednot indicate a difference in voice between the two races. Humes Bush-Quail. Microperdix manipurensis. Lanz soibol, Manipuri. This bush-quail can really be called a grey quail, since itsprevailing colour above is slate, with no tinge of brown, butdiversified by black markings ; the under-surface is mottled withbuff and black, the buff predominating as large spots, almostconcealing the black groundwork. The legs are orange, and theonly difference between the cock and the hen is the dark reddish-chocolate face of the former sex. In Manipur this bird is fairly common, but very hard to get,or even to see, as it haunts high grass, and even after this isburnt is still difficult to discover, owing to its da
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