30 



cursoriid^. 



q-k. Ad. et imm. 



sk. 

 I. Ad. sk. 

 m. Pull. sk. 



n, o, p. Ad. et 



imm. sk. 

 q. 5 a d. sk. 



r. Ad. sk. 



s. $ imm. sk. 



t, u. 3 ad. ; v. 2 



ad. sk. 

 w,.v. Ad. sk. 



?/, z, a'. J ad. et 

 imm. sk. 



&'. 5 imm. sk. 



e'. J ad. sk. 



Fao, Persian Gulf, Oct. 



Persian Gulf. 



Island of Tungistan, E. of 

 Bushire, June 2 [E. A. 

 Butler). 



Mekran Coast, Jan. (A. O. 

 H.) 



Mandavi, Kutch, Jan. 25 (E. 

 A. Butler). 



Karachi, Oct. 23 (Col. Le 

 Messurier). 



Andamans, Aug. (B. J. 

 Wimberley). 



South Andamans, March 12 

 (B. J. Wimberley). 



Macpherson's Straits, An- 

 daman?, March (B. G. 

 W. B.). 



Jolly Boys Island, Anda- 

 mans, March 9 ( W. Davi- 

 son). 



Aberdeen, S. Andamans, 

 June 5 ( W. Davison). 



Port Blair, August. 



W. D. Cummini, r , 



Esq. [P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



2. ORTYXELUS. 



Type. 



Ortyxelus, Vieillot, Gal. Ois. ii. p. 91 (1834) O. meiff'reni. 



Torticella (ubi?), teste Gloger. 



Psilocnemis, Gloger, Hanalb. Nature/, p. 403 (1842). ... 0. meiffreni. 



Helortyx, Agassiz, Index Univ. p. 176 (1846) O. meiffrehi, 



Oxytelus', Beichenb. Av. Sgst. Nat. p. xxviii (1852) .... O. meiffreni. 



Range. The same as that of the single species of the genus. 



1. Ortyxelus meiffreni. 



Turnix meiflreni, Vieill. N. Diet, d'llist. Nat. xxxv. p. 49 (1818); 

 Heugl. in Peterm. Mitth. 1869, p. 413 (Kordofan). 



Hemipodius nivosus, Swains. Phil. Mag. lx. p. 353 (1822) ; id. Zool. 

 Blustr. iii. pi. 103 (1823) ; id. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 225 (1837). 



Hemipodius meiffreni, Tenun. PI. Col. v. pi. 60. fig. 1 (1823). 



Ortyxelus meiffreni, Vieill. Gal. Ois. ii. p. 92, pi. 300 (1834) ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. iii. p. 511 (1847); Strickl. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 220 (Kor- 

 dofan) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 204 (1857 : Senegal) ; id. J.f. O. 

 1861, p. 267 (Grand Bassam) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 271, 

 no. 9752 (1870) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. pt. 1, p. 912 (1873: 

 Central and Southern Kordofan) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, p. 543 

 (Turquel). 



Ortvgis meiflreni, Jurd. Nat. Hist. Game-birds, p. 189, pi. xxvii. 

 (1834). 



Psilocnemis meiffreni, Gloger, Handb. Nat. p. 403 (1842). 



Torticella meiffreni, Gloger, Handb. Nat. p. 403 (1842). 



Helortyx meiffreni, Agassiz, Index Univ. p. 176 (1846). 



