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6. TURN IX OCELLATA (Seopoli). 



SPOTTED BUTTON QUAIL. 



Oriolus ocellatus Scopoli. Del. Flor. ct Faun. Insubr. (1786), pt. 2, 88. 

 Tvrnix ocellata Grakt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 22, 548; Sharpe, 



Hand-List (1899), 1, 49; McGregor and \Yorcester, Hand-List 



(1906), 8. 



Pu-gong gti'-bat, Manila. 



Luzon {Everett, Heriot, Whitehead, McGregor, Worceste); ilearns). 



Adult male. — Above mottled and spotted; head and sides of face black 

 with roundish white spots and some rnsty edging to feathers; rest of 

 upper parts with large black centers to feathers whose edges are light 

 bulf and tips rusty; a slight trace of a chestnut nuchal collar; chin and 

 middle of throat white; breast uniform rufous-chestnut; middle of l^elly 

 dirty white; flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts dirty buif ; primaries 

 brown with pale edges; secondaries mottled and with wider, buff edges; 

 coverts and tertials buflP, each with a larger, roundish, black spot. '"Iris 

 white, upper mandible grayish brown at tip, pale yellow from nostrils 

 ])ack; lower mandible pale yellow, except tip light brown, legs and feet 

 light straw-yellow, except joints and soles light l)rown; nails gray. 

 Lengtli, 165." {^yorccster.) A specimen from Benguet measures: 

 "Wing, 93; tail, 33; culmen, 15; tarsus, 25; middle toe with claw, 24. 



Adult female. — Similar to male but larger; throat and chin black; 

 chestnut of breast continued above as a wide nuchal collar. Iris white ; 

 bill pale yellow, grayish at tip ; legs dull 3'ellow ; nails Avhitish. Length, 

 180; wing, 115; tail, 37; culmen, 17; tarsus, 29; middle toe with claw, 

 27.5. These measurements are from a specimen taken near Manila. 



Young. — In young males the throat is more or less spotted with black 

 and many of the breast-feathers are subterminally spotted with black. In 

 young females the throat is more or less spotted with white. 



This is much the largest of the Fbilippine button quails and appears 

 to be contined to the Island of Luzon. 



7. TURNIX WHITEHEADI Grant. 



WHITEHEAD'S BUTTON QUAIL. 



Tiintix irhitehcadi Grant, Hand-Book Game Bds. (1896), 2, 276; White- 

 head, Ibis (1899), 5, 493; Sharpe, Hand-List (1899). 1, 48; Mc- 

 Gregor, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4, 7. pi. 1, fig. 2; McGregor 

 and Worcester. Hand-List (1906), 8. 



Luzon {Whitehead, McGregor) . 



Adult male. — General color above black, finely vermiculated with gray 

 and dull reddish brown or with dull chestnut; crown mostly black witb 

 dull chestnut tips to the feathers; a distinct median line of buff -from 

 bill to neck; many feathers on back edged with buff or whitish buff; fore- 

 head and whole side of face pale buff, most of the feathers black tipped ; 



