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20. Turnix pyrrhothorax. 



Hemipodius pyrrhotliorax, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. loO : id. Birds 



of Austr. V. pi. 86 (1848). 

 Tm-nix pyirbotliorax, Gould, Handb. B. Austr, ii. p. 186 (1865) ; 



Gray, Iland-l. B. ii. p. 270, no. 9747 (1870) ; Bamsay, P. Z. S. 



1876, p. 119; id. Tub. List Austr. B. p. 19 (1888) [E. and S. 



Australia and the Interior] ; Grant, His, 1889, pp. 453, 474 ; 



Norlh, N. 4- E. B. Austr. p. 287 (1889). 



Advlt female. General colour above stone-grey, mixed here and 

 there with rufous and buff. Feathers of the top of the head black, 

 with rufous margins : a whitish-buff stripe down the centre of the 

 head ; nape and nuchal region rufous grey, each feather faintly 

 barred with darker and edged laterally with whitish buff. Back, 

 scapulars, rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail irregularly barred and 

 vermiculatcd with rufous buff and black and margined laterally with 

 whitish or buff. Primaries and secondaries and their coverts as in 

 T. varia ; rest of the wing-coverts marbled with black, buff, and 

 duU red, and somewhat widely margined with pale buff. Superciliary 

 stripes, lores, sides of the face, and neck white tipped with black. 

 Chin, thi-oat, chest, sides of breast, flanks, and under tail-coverts 

 rusty buff; the middle of the chin and throat and the remainder of 

 the underparts whitish ; some of the feathers on the sides of the 

 chest and breast are irregularly barred with black and white at their 

 extremity. Bill very strong. Total length 6 inches, wing 3-3, tail 

 1*4, tarsus 0"8. 



Adult male. Resembles the female, but is smaller, and the rust- 

 eoloured chest is not so blight. Total length o-'2 inches, wing 

 2-9, tail 1-3, tarsus 0-75. 



J fab. N.E., E., and S. Australia ; also the Interior. 



a. 2 ad- •'^t. Australia. Purchased. 



6. cJ ad. sk. Australia. Gould Coll. 



c. c? ftd. sk. ■ Australia. Sir D. Cooper. 



d, e. cS 2 ad. Somerset, Cape York (J. rWrere// Salvin-Godman and 

 sk. v.^- J. Thorpe). Tweeddale CoUs. 



/-/. (S 2 ad. Queensland (J. Cockerell if J. Salviu-Godiuan and 



sk. Thorpe). Gould Colb. 



wi. 5 ad. sk. Boorloo Spring, S. of Lake Eyre, Tweeddale CoU. 

 Jan. 



21. Turnix velox. 



Hemipodius velox, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 150 [Interior of X. S. 



Wales] ; id. B. of Austr. v. pi. 87 (1848). 

 Turnix \elox, Gunld, Ilandb. B. Austr. ii. p. 184 (18C5) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 270, no. 9748 (1870) ; Bamsai/, P. Z. S. 1876, 



p. 119 ; id. Tab. List Austr. B. p. 18 (1888) [Australia gencrallv] ; 



Grant, Ibis, 1889, pp. 453, 475 ; North, N. ^ E. B. Austr. p. 286 



(1889). 



Adult female. Has the general colour above reddish chestnut, 

 shadirg into light red on the nape and the top of the head ; other- 

 wise the nrarkings on the upper surface are almost the same as in 



