546 



TCEKECrD^. 



a. 5 imm. sk. 



b. 2 ad. sk. 



c-ff. (S 2 ad., iinm., 



et juv. sk. 

 h-n. (^ $ ad., imm., 



et pull. sk. 



o. cJ nr. ad. sk. 

 p. 2 ad. sk. 



Nicobar Islands. 



Nangcowiy I., Nicobars, Dec. 



(-R. J. Wimberley). 

 Camorta L, Isicobars, Jan., 



Dec. (-R. /. Wimberley). 

 Camorta I., Nicobars, Feb. to 



May & Dec. ( W. Davison ^ 



A. de Roepstorff). 

 Port Mouat, Andamans, Jan. 



[W. Davison). 

 Port Blair, Andamans. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale CoU. 



Tweeddale CoU. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume CoU. 



(Type of tbe species.) 



Hume Coll. 



12. Turnix maculosa. 



Hemipodius maculosus, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 631, 757 (1815). 



Turnix maculosus, Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 394 (1819). 



Turnix maculatus, Vieill. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 3.30 (1823) ; id. Galerie 

 des Ois. ii. p. 51, pi. 217 [ $ ad. good] (1825). 



Hemipodius melanotus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 8 [Tasmania !] ; id. 

 Syn. B. Auslr. text & pi. (1837-38) ; id. B. of Austr. v. pi. 84 

 (1848) ; Ramsay, P. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. iv. p. 92 (1879) [Port 

 Moresby, New Guinea]. 



Turnix melanotus, Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 182 (1865) ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. ii. p. 270, no. 9745 (1870) ; Ramsay, P. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S. W. i. p. 185 (1876) [N. S. Wales, and Queensland], ii. p. 196 

 (1877) ; id. Tab. List Austr. B. p. 18 (1888) [N. and N.E. Aus- 

 tralia, Interior, and S. New Guinea]. 



Turnix beccarii, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. vii. p. 675 (1875) 

 [S.E, Celebes]; id. Ibis, 1890, p. 130; Grant, Ibis, 1890, p. 344. 



Turnix melauota, Forbes, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 127 [Albany I. and Booby 

 I., Cape York] ; id. Voy. ' Challenger,' B. p. 91 (1881). 



Turnix melanonota, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. xviii. p. 9 

 (1882) [pai-t.] : id. Orn. Pap. iii. p. 258 (1882) [part.] ; id. Agg. 

 Orn. Pap. pt. iii. p. 195 (1891). 



Turnix maculosa, Grant, Ibis, 1889, pp. 451, 452, 468. 



Adult female. Resembles T. hlanfordi, from which it can at once 

 be distinguished by its smaller size and by having the scapulars 

 edged with golden buff or straw-colour. The feathers of the top of 

 the head are black margined with brownish grey, a dull buff line 

 runs down the middle of the head, and there is more rufous re- 

 maining in the plumage of the upper parts below the nuchal collar. 

 Total length 5*8 inches, wing 3-2, tail 1"3, tarsus 0*85. 



Adult mcde. Resembles the female, but there is no trace of a rufous 

 nuchal collar. Total length 5'1 inches, wing 2-8, tail 1*2, tarsus 0*8. 



Immature birds of both sexes resemble the immature of T. blan- 

 fordi, but are at once distinguished by the wider golden-buff 

 margins of the scapulars. 



Hah. N. and E, Australia and the Interior ; also S. coast of 

 N. Guinea ; S.E. Celebes. 



a. (S ad. sk. Lizard Island, May. 



b. (S imm. sk. Albany Island, Cape York. 

 c-g. (S 2 ad. et Somerset, Cape York {J. F, 



imm. sk. Cocker ell ^ J. Thorpe). 



J. B. Jukes, Esq. [P.]. 

 ' Challenger ' Exp. 

 Salvin-Godman CoU. 



