18 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Family TURNICID^. 



Size small, the largest Philippine species under 200 mm. in length, the 

 others much smaller. Birds of this family resemhle Excalfactoria in 

 general form but may be recognized by their lack of a hind toe. They 

 are usually found in grassy plains. The flight is rapid but of short dui*a- 

 tion; the birds get up at one's feet but seldom flush a second time. The 

 nest is placed on the ground beneath a tuft of grass; eggs, three or four, 

 spotted with brown. 



Genus TUENIX Bonnaterre, 1790. 



Characters same as those given for the Family. 



Species. 



a\ Breast witliout chestnut or nisty buff, heavily eross-barred with black. 



fasciata (p. 18) 

 a". Breast chestnut or rusty buff, without black cross-bars. 



h^. Larger; wing more than 80 mm.; breast rich chestnut; chin wliite ( (^ ) . or 



black ( 9 ) . or white spotted with black (young) ocellata (p. 20) 



h-. Smaller; wing less than 80 mm.: breast rusty buff; chin whitish, never 

 black nor mixed with black. 

 c^. Bill more slender, depth at angle of gonys, 4 mm. or less. 



d^. Smaller; wing, 57 to 60; tarsus, 16.5 to 18 mm whiteheadi (p. 20) 



rf-. Larger; wing, 65.5 or more; tarsus, 19 mm. or more. 



e\ Larger; wing, 67 mm.; upper parts lighter suluensis (p. 21) 



e^. Smaller; wing, 65.5 mm.; upper parts darker celestinoi (p. 22) 



(•'-'. Bill stouter, depth at angle of gonys, 5.8 mm worcesteri (p. 23) 



."). TURN IX FASCIATA (Temminck). 

 PHILIPPINE BUTTON QUAIL. 



Hemipudius fasciatiis Temminck, Pig. et Gall. (1815), 3, (i.'U, 757. 



Tuniix fasciata Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1803), 22, 535; Shabpe, 

 Hand-List (1899), 1, 48; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1901), 1, 70; Mc- 

 Gregor and Worcester, Hand-Li.st (1906), 8. 



Turnix nif/rescens Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 765. 



Turnix haynuldi Blasius, Ornis (1888), 4, 317. 



Pii-c/ong daan, jVIanila; tic-ti'-co, Calapan, Mindoro. 



Calamianes (Bourns d Worcester); Cebu [Everett, Bourns d Worcester); 

 Luzon {Everett, Heriot, Whitehead, McGregor, Mearns) ; Masbate {Bourns tf 

 Worcester) ; Mindoro {McGregor, Porter) ; Negros {Steere Exp.) ; Palawan 

 {Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns d- Worcester, White): Panay {Bourns 

 d Wo7-cester) ; Sibuyan {Bourns d Worcester) . 



Adult male. — x\bove blackish brown; feathers of back largely black 

 with white or buff margins; in some specimens the margins largely 

 rufous; chin and throat white; breast and sides light buff with clear-cut^ 

 subtenninal. black cross-bars; abdomen and bellv dirtv white: flanks and 



