_Oriolus lineatus_ Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr., fasc. 2,
1786, p. 87. (Type locality, Luzon, _ex_ Sonnerat.)
_Excalfactoria sinensis_ Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, p. 61
(Guam); Seale, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1, 1901, p. 37
(Guam); Safford, Osprey, 1902, p. 68 (Guam); _idem_, Amer.
Anthro., 4, 1902, p. 711 (Guam); _idem_, The Plant World, 7, 1904,
p. 265 (Guam); _idem_, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb., 9, 1905, p. 78
(Guam); Cox, Island of Guam, 1917, p. 21 (Guam); Nelson, Proc. 1st
Pan-Pacific Sci. Conf., 1921, p. 273 (Guam).
_Excalfactoria chinensis lineata_ Wetmore, in Townsend and
Wetmore, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoöl., 63, 1919, p. 176 (Guam); Kuroda,
in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 41 (Guam); Mathews, Syst.
Avium Australasianarum, 1, 1927, p. 20 (Marianne); Hand-list
Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 198 (Guam); Peters, Check-list
Birds World, 2, 1934, p. 96 (Guam); Bryan, Guam. Rec., vol. 13,
no. 2, 1936, p. 15 (Guam); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942,
p. 223 (Guam); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 287 (Guam).
_Excalfactoria chinensis_ Strophlet, Auk, 1946, p. 536 (Guam).
_Coturnix chinensis lineata_ Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol.
107, no. 15, 1948, p. 47 (Guam).
_Geographic range._--Philippines and parts of Malaysia. In
Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Guam (introduced).
_Characters._--Adult: A small quail with upper parts brown
splotched with black and streaked with buff; males with face and
throat black surrounded by white line, upper breast blue gray,
lower breast, belly and under tail-coverts and tail near "burnt
sienna"; females lighter than males, underparts pale brown,
mottled with blackish on breast and sides of body; bill dark lead
colored, feet yellow.
_Measurements._--Three adult males from Guam measure: wing, 66,
67, 67; culmen, 9.2, 10.0, 10.3; tarsus, 18.1, 18.7, 22.6.
_Weights._--Two adult males taken by NAMRU2 at Guam weigh 34.5 and
35.5 grams.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 3 males from Mariana Islands,
USNM--Guam (Feb. 24, June 13, 28).
_Remarks._--Seale (1901:37) writes that the Painted Quail was introduced
to Guam from Manila, or the island of Luzon in the Philippine Islands,
by Captain Pedro Duarty of the Spanish Army in 1894. It was a successful
introduction; the bird is well adapted to the grasslands, open
hillsides, and fallow rice paddies. The bird appears to offer no serious
competition to native species, because there are few native birds which
depend largely on this habitat. The NAMRU2 party obtained specimens at
Mt. Santa Rosa and near Agat; others were seen as singles or pairs near
Umatac and on Mount Tenjo. Strophlet (1946:536) observed the birds in
the southern part of Guam in 1945. He found them as singles or pairs in
the months of September, October and November. Wilfred Crabb reported a
covey of seven birds in June, 1945. Two males taken in June had enlarged
testes. Seale (1901:37) obtained a nest of seven eggs.
=Gallus gallus= (Linnaeus)