[159]

For more details, see art. Quail, Dresser, Birds of Europe, vii. 1878, pp. 143-154.

[160]

Grandidier, Histoire de Madagascar, xii., Paris, 1879, pp. 489, 490.

[161]

Cf. Ogilvie Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxii. 1893, p. 188.

[162]

See Lilford, Ibis, 1862, pp. 352-356; Dresser, Birds of Europe, vii. pp. 123-128.

[163]

The nest is occasionally in a shrub, Hume, ed. Oates, Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, iii. 1890, p. 435.