1. TURNIX. 549 



h. cJ ad. sk. Laguna de Bai, Nov. {A. Tweeddale Coll. 



H. Everett). 

 i. $ ad. sk, S. Luzon. Gould Coll. 



16. Tumix nigricollis. 



La Oaille de Madagascar (Cotumix madagascariensis), Brisson, Om. 



i. p. 252, pi. xxiv. fig. 2 (1760) ; UAubent. PL Enl. ii. no. 171 



(1783). 

 Black-neclced Quail, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. ii. p. 791 (1783) ; id. Gen. 



Hist. viii. p. 339 (1823). 

 Tetrao nigi-icoUis, Gm. S. K. i. pt. ii. p. 767 (1788). 

 Perdix nigiicollis, Lath. Lnd. Om. ii. p. 656 (1790) ; Temm. Tabl. 



Meth. p. G4 (1838). 

 Hemipodius nigi-icollis, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. p. 619 (1815). 

 Ortygis nigiicollis, Cuv. Rigne Anim. i. p. 458 (1817). 

 Turnix nigricollis, Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxv. p. 45 (1819) ; 



Grai/, Gen. B. iii. p. 511 (1847) ; Hartlanb, Ann. Mag. N. H. 



ii. p. 391 (1848) ; id. J. f. 0. 1860, p. 164 ; Roch Sf Neivton, 



Ibis, 1863, p. 168; Pollen, Ned. Tijd. Dierk. i. p. 317 (1863); 



Ncivton, P. Z. S. 1805, p. 830; Schlegel, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 425; 



Grandidier, Rev. Mag. Zool. 180", p. 419 ; Schlcg. in Pollen et Van 



Dam, Rech. Faun. Madaq. ii. p. 120 (1808) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 270, no. 9733 (1870) ; Bartlett, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 67 ; Hartl. 



Viig. Madag. p. 284 (1877) ; Pollen, Faun. Madag. i. p. 206, fig. 



(1877) ; Milne-Edtcards S)- Grandidier, Madagascar, Ois. p. 494, 



pl.ccii. (1885); Grant, Ibis, 1889, pp. 452, 471; Sibree,Ibis, 1891, 



p. 505 ; Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 346 ; Lilfurd, Ibis, 1892, p. 466. 



Adult female. Feathers of the lores and forehead black barred 

 with white, those on the sides of the face and neck white tipped 

 M'ith black ; a white stripe from the base of the lower mandible 

 runs down either side of the throat, which, together with the 

 chin and middle of chest, is deep black; top of the head brown, 

 dotted with white ; nape dark grey ; upper back and scapular.'; 

 black, barred with rufous and margined on either side with whitish 

 or buff ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts brownish grej-, 

 mixed here and there with rufous, and with wavy black bars and 

 vermiculations, some of the feathers with one or a pair of buff spots 

 near the extremity of the margin. Primaries, primary-coverts, and 

 secondaries blackish brown, the quills margined on the outer web 

 ■with buff; tertiaries and rest of the wing-coverts rufous, vermi- 

 culated with black, and ornamented with irregularly-shaped black 

 and white spots situated mostly on the outer web. Chest, breast, 

 and underparts dove-grey, paler on the belly ; sides of chest and 

 shoulders rust-red. Iris bright yellow ; bill bluish ; legs flesh-colour. 

 Total length 5-8 inches, wing ',V'S, tail 1-4, tarsus 0-8. 



Adult male. Differs from the above in having the feathers of the 

 forehead black widely edged with buff; the nape like the upper 

 back : the chin and middle of throat white ; the sides of the chest 

 washed with pale rufous ; the middle of the chest, breast and flanks 

 buff, all barred with black ; belly paler. Total length 5-5 inches, 

 wing 2-9, tail 1-35, tarsus 0-8. 



Quite young birds and nestlings have the outer webs of the 



