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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mb1848" data-source="post: 3752996" data-attributes="member: 31036">Bonaparte went to the Berlin Museum and saw a bird named by Hemprich as F. brachydactyla and Bonaparte recognised it as a species and publishes it in 1850.  Then Muller publishs Carpospiza.  In a 1854 JfO Cabanis makes the connection between the two. Im wondering if there are two populations one short winged and one long winged?In the OD of Perdicula at the KEY it mentions Gunga's No. 6.??  Here is all I could find:Several writers in the Bengal Sporting Magazine, including Hodgson, used to consider the Coromandel and Rain -quail to be distinct; but the well-known * Gunga' shewed that they were the same bird, and that the supposed distinction probably arose from Sportsmen considering that Bain- quail, so called, were never met with, except during the rains, whereas they are found at all seasons, but attract attention less in the cold weather, and indeed are then often confounded with the Grey-Quail. The female lays eight to twelve eggs, dull whitish, blotched and speckled with umber brown. Gunga, in the Bengal Sporting Magazine, says, that on one occasion, he found four whitish eggs, dotted and blotched with pale red.DESCRIPTIONS 0F ALL THE SPECIES OF GAME BIRDS, SNIPE, AND DUCK FOUND IN INDIA, BY T. C. JERDONGunga …an ornithological notice of the Bengal Vulture. Bengal Sporting Magazine. IV:Hodgson wrote in the Bengal Sporting Magazine as Parabattiah.</blockquote>