TIIRKE-TOED OR DUSTARD QUAILS. 265 



<:'. Shoulder - feathers not edged w'ah 

 golden-biifir. (Females with a well- 

 defined rufous collar; males with- 

 out) (species 10 to 12, pp. 277-280). 



d\ Shoulder-feathers edged with golden- 

 buff (species 13 to 15, pp;. 281-282). 



C. Neck and breast uniform bright rufous; upper tail- 

 coverts very long, entirely covering the true tail 

 (species i6, p. 283). 



II. I.eg (metatarsus) equal to or shorter than the middle 

 toe and claw. Bill very stout in some species (species 17 

 to 22, pp. 284-289). 



I. Tarsus longer than the middh toe and chm\ 



A. Entire l^reast transversely Ihirred with black; belly 

 imniaailate ; sexes different in plumage ; ?niddle of 

 chin and throat black, or barred with black in the 

 females, white in the males. 



I. THE DUSTARD-QUAIL. TURNIK TAIGOOR. 



Hem i Ml ins taigoor, Sykes, P. Z S. 1832, p. 155 ; id. Trans. Z. 



S, ii. p. 23, pi. iv. (1841). 

 Ilemipodius pliimbipes, Hodgson, Bengal Sport. Mag. May, 



1837, P 346. 

 Tin nix ocellaius, Jerdon {^nec Scop.), B. Ind. ii. p. 597 (1864). 

 Turnix taigoor, Jerdon, B. India, ii. p. 595(1864); Hume & 



Marshall, Game Birds of Ind. ii. p. 169, pi. (1879) ; Gates, 



ed. Hume's Nests & Eggs, Ind. B. iii. p. 367 (1890); 



Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 531 (1893), 

 Tu7'nix 7-ostrata, Swinhoe, Ibis. 1865, p. 543. 

 Areotiir?iix blakistoni, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 401. 

 Turnix plunibipes, Hume & Marshall, Game Birds Ind. ii. p. 



177,, pi. (1S79). 



Adult Male. — Chin and throat white, narrowly edged with 



