TURNIX. 23 



10. TURNIX WORCESTERI McGregor. 



WORCESTER'S BUTTON QUAIL. 



Turnix icorcesteri McGregor, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4, 8. pi. 1, 

 fig. 1; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 8. 



Luzon ( McGregor) . 



Adult {sexes nearly alike). — General color above black; forehead 

 spotted witli white; feathers of crown and nape tipped with pale buff 

 and some edged with white, producing an incomplete white line on middle 

 of head (this line may be perfect in a well made skin) ; feathers on back 

 and nimp barred and tipped with pale buff; tertials and scapulars edged 

 with wliitish buff"; feathers on sides of face mostly white with black 

 tips; lores white; feathers on sides of neck black, each with a wide, sub- 

 terminal, white bar; a small black spot behind ear; ])reast and tbroat 

 rusty buff or dark clay-color, this color extending up each side of the 

 white chin-area as rusty-buff tips to the feathers and bounded above by the 

 black-tipped white feathers of malar region ; flanks, under tail-coverts, and 

 sides of abdomen and breast also rusty buff, but paler ; middle of abdomen 

 whitish; a few feathers on sides of abdomen barred with blackisli brown; 

 primaries, their coverts, and secondaries drab-gray; four outer primaries 

 narrowly edged with whitish ; secondaries barred with whitish on outer 

 webs; secondary-coverts blackish, mottled and edged with pale buff; 

 rectrices blackish, edged with buff. Bill pale bluish ; legs flesh-pink, nails 

 slightly darker; iris very pale yellow. A male measures: Length, 120; 

 wing, 65; tail, 27; culmen from base, 10; depth of bill at angle of 

 gonys, 5; tarsus, 17; middle toe with claw, 16. Length of female, 128; 

 wing, 71; tail, 23.5; culmen, 11.4; depth of bill at angle of gonys, 5.8; 

 tarsus, 16.7; middle toe with claw, 18. 



Worcester's quail is known from four specimens which were purchased 

 in Quinta Market, Manila. It resemldes T. luhiteheadi but differs from 

 that species in having the bill much deeper. Major E. A. Mearns 

 informs me tliat he is quite sure that he saw a live bird of this species in 

 Manila, in August, 1907. 



( )r<lei COLITMBiromrES. 



DOVES AND PIGEONS. 



Tip of bill horny and strongly convex forming a "nail" whicli is often 

 of a shade or color different from that of the soft, contracted, basal por- 

 tion ; covering of nostril generally tumid ; toes four, three in front, cleft 

 to tlie base or with a slight web; hind toe not elevated; legs and toes 

 never much lengthened; tarsus either slightly longer or sliglitly sliorter 

 tiian middle toe witliout rlaw ; wing flat and rather long ; in several 

 genera tlie prinuiries variously cut or attenuated; tail usually square or 

 slightly rounded; never forked; in Macrupi/ijia and Geopelia the rectrices 



