1. TUENTX. 551 



a, b. S ad. sk. Australia. Twoeddale Coll. 



c-e. (S $ ad. sk. Queensland. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ftff; 69- ad. sk. Queensland ? Gould Coll. 



h, i. (S 2 ad. St. Moreton Bay. Purchased. 



IS. Turnix varia. 



Perdix varius, Lath. Lid. Orn, Sup2)l. p. Ixiii (1801). 



New Holland Partridoe, Lath. Gen. Si/ti. Suppl. ii. p. 283 (1802). 



Varied Quail, Lath. Gen. Hist. viii. p. 344 (1823). 



Heniipodius varius, Gould, Si/n. Li. Aiistr. text & pi. fig. 1 (1837-8) ; 



id. L'iivh ofAustr. V. pi. 82 (1848). 

 Ilemipodius scintillans, Gould, P. Z. S. 1845, p. G2 [Hoiitman's 

 ^ Abrolhos, AV. Australia] ; id. B. ofAustr. v. pi. 83 (1848). 

 Turnix varius, Gould, Llandb. B. Austr. ii. p. 179 (1865) : Ramsay, 



P. Z. S. 1876, p. 119; id. P. Linn. Sac. N. S. W. i. pp.' 185, 218 



(1870), ii. p. 196 (1877) ; id. Tab. List Austr. B. p. 18 (1888) 



[Rockingham Bay to S. Australia and Tasmania] ; North, N. Sf E. 



B. Austr. p. 285 (1889). 

 Turnix seintiUans, Gould, LLandh. B. Austr. ii. p. 181 (1865) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 270, no. 9744 (1870) ; Bamsay, P. Linn. Sac. 



N. S. TV. I. p. 184 (1876), ii. p. 196 (1877) ; id. Tab. List Austr. B. 



p. 18 (1888) [N.W. and N. Australia]. 

 Turnix varia, Ramsai/, Lbis, 1866, p. 334; Chay, LLnnd-l. B. ii. 



p. 270, no. 9743 (1870) ; Marie, Lbis, 1877, p. 362 [New Caledonia]; 



Layard, Lbis, 1878, p. 262, 1882, p. 630; Grant, Lbis, 1889, 



pp. 452, 453, 473. 



Adult female. General colour above black, barred -with rufous, 

 shading into chestnut on the nuchal region. Centre of the top of 

 the head dark grey ; sides black, edged with grey or rufous ; lores, 

 superciliary stripes, sides of the face, and throat white tipped with 

 black ; chin and centre of throat white. Nape grey, with a black and 

 white spot at the extremity of the feathers ; nuchal region bright 

 chestnut edged with grey, and dotted here and there with black and 

 white marks. Back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts grey at 

 the base and margined with black, barred with chestnut and rufous 

 at the extremity, and with a submarginal white streak on either 

 side. Primaries, secondaries, and primary-coverts blackish grey, the 

 former margined with \\ bite on the outer web : secondary-coverts 

 bufl-grey, dotted indistinctly with black; rest of the wing-coverts 

 grey at the base and rufous at the extremity, each with two or 

 three irregular white ocelli edged with black. Chest grey, each 

 feather with a pale buff or whitish shaft-streak widening out 

 towards the extremity ; breast buff mixed with grey, some of the 

 foather-s on the sides chestnut, with whitish black-edged spots at 

 the extremity. Belly and rest of underparts pale buff. Tail like 

 the upper taU-covorts. Total length 7"(j inches, vnng 4-2, tail 1-9, 

 tarsus 0'9. 



Adult nude. Eesembles the female, but there is no well-defined 

 rufous nuchal collar, and on the chest the pale buff element 

 predominates over the grey. Total length 0-4 inches, wing 3-7, 

 tail I'T, tarsus 0'8, 



Hob. Australia ; ? New Caledonia. 



