550 TTTENICrD^. 



whole of the secondaries rufous, veimiculated "with black ana 

 ornamented along the margin with three or four white spots edged 

 with black ; otherwise the plumage is much the same as in the 

 immature male. 

 Hah. Madagascar. 



a, b. 5 ad. sk. Madagascar. Gould and Shelley Colls. 



c. 9 ad. St. Madagascar. Capt. Sir E. Belcher, 



E.N. [P.]. 



d, e. 5 ad. et S Antankarana, N.W. Mada- Gould Coll. 

 j UT. sk. gascar {Pollen Sf Van Dam) . 



f. 5 ad. sk. Mahambo, E. Madagascar. Purchased. 



g-l. (S $ ad. et Ankafina, Betsileo, March Tweeddale Coll. 



juv. sk. ( W. D. Cowan), 



m. 2 ad. sk. Analatsoy ( W. D. Co2oan). Shelley Coll. 



n, 0. S 2 ad. Died in confinement. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, 



sk. Esq. [P.]. 



17. Turnix melanogaster. 



Hemipodius melanogaster, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 7 [N. S. Wales 

 and Tasmania !] ; id. Syn. B. Austr. text & pi. fig. 2 (1837-8) ; id. 

 Birds of Austr. v. pi. 81 (1848). 



Turnix melanogaster, Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 178 (1865) ; 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 270, no. 9742 (1870) ; Ramsay, P. Linn. 

 Soc. N. S. W. i. p. 184 (1876), ii. p. 196 (1877) ; id. Tab. List Austr. 

 Birds, p. 18 (1888) [Wide Bay district to N. S. Wales] ; Grant, 

 Ibis, 1889, pp. 452, 472 ; North, N. S,- E. B. Austr. p. 285 (1889). 



Adult female. General colour above umber-brown. Forehead, 

 sides of the face, chin and throat black ; top of the head a mixture 

 of dark chestnut and black ; superciliary stripes and nape black, 

 spotted with white ; most of the feathers of the upper back and the 

 scapulars and some of the rump-feathers and upper tail-coverts with 

 a broad chestnut patch at the extremity barred with black, and 

 edged laterally with white in the two former and whitish buff in the 

 latter. Primaries, inner secondaries, and primary-coverts blackish 

 brown, margined with buff on the outer web ; outer secondaries and 

 secondary-coverts paler, finely mottled with buff and black on the 

 outer web ; rest of the wing-coverts chestnut, edged with brown, 

 and each with two or three irregularly-shaped white ocelli edged 

 with black. Chest and breast black, most of the feathers widely 

 tipped with white, and some of those on the sides of the breast with 

 a patch of bright chestnut near the extremity. Belly and rest 

 of underparts dark grey, marbled with buff and black. Tail umber- 

 brown, with wavy transverse bars of black and lateral buff spots. 

 Total length 7*5 inches, wing 4-4, tail 1-7, tarsus 1. 



Adult male. Differs from the female in having the top of the 

 head umber-brown like the back, the lores and sides of the head 

 white tipped with black, the chin and rest of the throat pure 

 white, the chest and breast whitish buff, irregularly barred and 

 marked with black, and the rest of the underparts whiter. Total 

 length 6-3 inches, wing 4-1, tail 1*6, tarsus 0-95, 



Hah. E. Australia. 



