Its habits doubtless resemble those of the other members of the genus, but nothing is at present known respecting them.
General plumage dark brown, minutely freckled with black, each feather of the upper and under surface with a broad stripe of bluish grey down the centre; feathers of the head and back of the neck with a spot of blackish brown at the tip, those down the centre of the head and a few of the back-feathers with white shafts; chin buff; flank-feathers with an arrow-head-shaped mark of black near the tip.
The figures are of the natural size.
SYNOÏCUS CHINENSIS.
J. Gould and H.C. Richter del et lith. C. Hullmandel Imp.
SYNOÏCUS? CHINENSIS.
Chinese Quail.
Perdix Chinensis, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. ii. p. 652.
Coturnix excalfatoria, Temm. Pig. et Gall., 8vo, tom. iii. pp. 516 and 743.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. xi. p. 371.
Tetrao Chinensis, Linn. Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 277.—Ib. Gmel. Edit., vol. i. p. 765.—Linn. Trans., vol. xiii. p. 324.
Coturnix Philippensis, Briss. Orn., vol. i. p. 454. sp. 17. tab. 25. fig. 1.—Ib. 8vo, vol. i. p. 71.