b1. No crest but with a fleshy comb; tail-coverts without ocelli; male with one pair of spurs ... Gallus (p. 13) b2. No comb but with an elongated crest; longer tail-coverts ocellated; male with two or three pairs of spurs ... Polyplectron (p. 16) Genus EXCALFACTORIA Bonaparte, 1856. This genus resembles Turnix but is distinguished from it by having a hind toe; the male is much handsomer than the female; the tail has but eight short rectrices which are hidden by the long upper coverts. 2. EXCALFACTORIA LINEATA (Scopoli). ISLAND PAINTED QUAIL. Oriolus lineatus Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), 2, 87. Excalfactoria lineata Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 22, 253; Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 32; Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1901), 1, 48, pl. 4, fig. 2; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 7. Pu-gong bú-quet, ti-co ti-co, Manila; pu-gong pa-rang, Calapan, Mindoro. Basilan (McGregor); Batan (McGregor); Bongao (Everett); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester); Cebu (Bourns & Worcester); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Heriot, Whitehead, McGregor); Masbate (Bourns & Worcester); Mindanao (Koch & Schadenberg, Clemens); Mindoro (McGregor, Porter); Negros (Layard, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Palawan (Whitehead, Bourns & Worcester, White); Panay (Bourns & Worcester); Samar (Whitehead); Sibuyan (McGregor); Siquijor (Celestino); Sulu (Guillemard); Ticao (McGregor). Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Australia. Adult male.--Upper parts dark brown; most of the feathers with light shaft-lines, large subterminal black blotches, and some black bars; the black markings heaviest on lower back; forehead, circumorbital area, sides of neck, breast, and flanks slate-blue; chin, upper throat, and lower half of face black; throat patch bordered posteriorly by a wide, crescentic, white patch which is bordered posteriorly by a narrow black band; a white included patch on side of face from lower mandible to below ear, the anterior end of which is pointed; a narrow white line from below nostril to eye; a patch of rich chestnut covering middle of abdomen and lower breast; wings sandy brown; coverts and secondaries vermiculated with darker brown; tail chestnut; upper tail-coverts chestnut mixed with slate-blue. Iris deep red; bill dark blue, black along upper part; legs dark yellow; nails brown. Length about 135. Five males measure: Wing, 66 to 70; tail-coverts, [4] 26 to 28; exposed culmen, 9 to 11; tarsus, 18 to 19.