alled also <i>Swamp-Quail</i>.]

Chestnut-backed Q.--
<i>Turnix castanotus</i>, Gould.

Chestnut-bellied Q.--
<i>Excalfatoria australis</i>, Gould.

Little Q.--
<i>Turnix velox</i>, Gould.

Painted Q.--
<i>T. varies</i>, Lath. [<i>Haemipodius melinatus</i>,
Gould.]

Red-backed Q.--
<i>T. maculosa</i>, Gould.

Red-chested Q.--
<i>T. pyrrhothorax</i>, Gould.

Stubble Q.--
<i>Coturnix pectoralis</i>, Gould.

In New Zealand there is a single species, <i>Coturnix
novae-zelandiae</i>, Quoy and Gaim.

1846. J. L. Stokes, `Discoveries in Australia,' vol. ii.
c. vii. p. 259:

"It is known to the colonists as the painted quail; and has
been called by Mr. Gould . . . <i>Haemipodius melinatus</i>."

1859. H. Kingsley, `Geoffrey Hamlyn,' p. 298:

"The painted quail, and the brush quail, the largest of
Australian gamebirds, I believe, whirred away from beneath
their horses' feet."

1862. H. C. Kendall, `Poems,' p. 67:

"The swamp fowl and timorous quail . . .
Will start from their nests."

1889. Prof. Parker, `Catalogue of New Zealand Exhibition,'
p. 117:

"This group also is represented by a single species, the New
Zealand quail (<i>Coturnix Novae-Zelandiae</i>), belonging to a
widely distributed genus. It was formerly very abundant in New
Zealand; but within the last fifteen or twenty years has been
completely exterminated, and is now only known to exist on the
Three Kings Island, north of Cape Maria Van Diemen."

<hw>Quail-Hawk</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given to the bird
<i>Falco</i>, or <i>Harpa novae-zelandiae</i>.
See <i>Hawk</i>.

1882. T. H. Potts, `Out in the Open,' p. 37:

"In New Zealand the courageous family of the <i>Raptores</i>
is very feebly represented; the honourable post of head of the
family in all fairness must be assigned to the falcon, which
is commonly known by the name of the quail- or sparrow-hawk,
not that it is identical with, or that it even bears much
resemblance to, the bold robber of the woods of Great
Britain--`the hardy sperhauke eke the quales foe,' as Chaucer
has it."

<hw>Quandong</hw>, <i>n</i>. (various spellings) aboriginal
name for--(1) a tree, <i>Santalum acuminatum</i>, De C.,
<i>S. persicarium</i>, F. v. M., <i>N.O. Santalaceae</i>.
In the Southern Colonies it is often called the <i>Southern
Quandong</i>, and the tree is called the <i>Native
Peach-Tree</i> (q.v.). The name is given to another large
scrub-tree, <i>Elaeocarpus grandis</i>, F.