100 BULLETIN 186, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Order GRUIFORMES 

 Family TURNICIDAE 



TURNIX TANKI BLANFORDII Blyth 



Chinese Yellow-legged Hemipode 



Tumix Blanfordii Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 32, 1S63, p. 80 (Thayel 



myo, Pegu, Burma). 

 Tumix blanfordi, Gyldenstolpe, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1915, p. 235 (listed) ; 



Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1916, p. 155 (Nong Bia). 

 Tumix tanki blanfordi, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1928, 



p. 575 (Doi Suthep). 

 Tumix maculatus macula tus, Deign an, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 



1931, p. 169 (Chiang Mai) ; 1936, p. 80 (Chiang Mai).— de Schauensee, Proc. 



Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1934, p. 277 (Chiang Mai). 

 Tumix tanki blanfordii, Riley, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 74 (Nan). 



This hemipode seems to be, in northern Thailand, only a winter visi- 

 tor, occurring commonly in suitable territory from October to April. 

 Eisenhofer sent to Stockholm a pair without date from Khun Tan. 

 I have taken one specimen at Sala Mae Tha and many at Chiang Mai. 

 It is chiefly a bird of the plains, but de Schauensee found it in the 

 open forest at 2,000 feet on Doi Suthep, and I took several in open 

 country at 4,400 feet on Doi Ang Ka, in April 1931. 



Its habits apparently differ in no way from those of the following 

 species, and the two occur in the same places. Stomachs I examined 

 contained only seeds and other vegetable matter. 



My specimens had the irides white or creamy white; the maxilla 

 dark brown or horny brown, with the edges of the commissure yellow 

 on the basal two-thirds; the mandible yellow, tipped horn brown or 

 fleshy; the feet and toes yellow, the joints of the toes horn brown; 

 the claws horny flesh or yellowish flesh. 



The female has the crown mixed black, rufous, and buff; a broad 

 collar on the upper back ferruginous-red; the remaining upperparts 

 brown, mottled with black, ferruginous, and buff; the throat whitish; 

 the upper breast bright rusty ; the remaining underparts buff ; the sides 

 of the breast, the flanks, and the upper wing coverts with rounded, 

 black spots. The male, which is much smaller and rather less brightly 

 colored, lacks the collar on the upper back. 



TURNIX SUSCITATOR INTERRUMPENS Robinson and Stuart Baker 



Thai Gray-legged Hemipode 



Tumix suscitator interrumpens Robinson and Stuart Baker, Bull. Brit. Orn. 



Club, vol. 48, 1927, p. 60 (Krasom, Peninsular Thailand). 

 Tumix suscitator, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 169 



(Chiang Mai). 



