530 TUKNICID^. 



II. Tarsus equal to or shorter thau the 

 middle toe and claw ; bill slender or 

 very stout. 



D. Breast and belly uniform dove-grey ; 



shoulders and sides of chest very 

 bright rufous ; chin and throat deep 

 black edged with white. Bill slender, nigricullis $ ad., p. 549. 



E. Chest black, many of the feathers 

 having terminal bars of white ; upper 

 sm'face umber, with here and there 

 irregular marks of black, rufous, and 



white. Bill fairly strong melanogastev $ ad., p. 550. 



F. Chest whitish, with a wide V-shaped 



subterminal black mark across each 

 feather ; upper surface as in 5 ad. 

 Bill not so strong melanogaster S ad., p. 550. 



G. Chest buff, irregularly spotted and 



marked with grey ; no rufous nuchal 

 collar, but otherwise the upper sur- 

 face similar to that of the 5 ad. 



Bill slender varia S ad., p. 551. 



II. Chest grey ; each feather with a pale 

 buff" or whitish shaft-streak, becom- 

 ing more or less spatulate towards 

 the margin. Feathers surrounding 

 the eye black spotted with white. 

 h'. Bill moderately stout ; a fairly 

 defined bright rufous nuchal col- 

 lar ; bade black, each feather ir- 

 regularly and narrowly barred 



with rufous varia $ ad., p. 551. 



I . Bill very stout ; upper surface uni- 

 form dull light red, one or two of 

 the feathers of the middle of the 



back mixed with black castanonota ^ J ad., p. 552. 



I, Chest rufous. Feathers round the eye 

 black spotted with white. Upper 

 surface stone-grey, most of the fea- 

 thers of the back with narrow trans- 

 verse bars of rufous and black .... pyrrhothorax S $ ad., p. 553. 

 K. Chest dull light red, darker at the 

 sides than in the middle. Feathers 

 surrounding the eye dull light red, 

 like the rest of the upper surface. 

 Bill very stout velox S 2 ad., p. 553. 



1. Turnix taigoor. 



Hemipodius taigoor, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 155 [Deccan] ; Bengal 



Sport. Mag., Oct. 1836, p. 171, pi. i. %. 8 ($ ad.); Sykes, Trans. 



Zool. Soc. ii. p. 23, pi. iv. (1841). 

 Ortygis nigricoUis, Jard. (nee Gm.) Nat. Lib., Om. iv. p. 191, 



pi. xxviii. (1834). 

 Hemipodius plumbipes, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus. nos. 126, 



127 ; id. Bengal Sport. Mag. May 1837, p. 346. 

 Hemipodius atrogularis, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 107 [Malacca]. 

 Hemipodius taigur ? v. plumbipes, Sodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 85 



(1844) [Nepal]. 



