270 Allen's naturalist's library. 



iv. the sumbawa bustard-quail. turnix powelli. 



'Furnix powelli, Guillemard, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 510, pi. xxix. ; 

 Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 537 (1S93). 



Adult Male. — As in the male of T. rujilatns, the chin and 

 ihroat white, the sides only narro7vly edited with black; the chest 

 barred with black and ivliite. Distinguished by the absence 

 of rufous on the belly, thighs, and under tail coverts. 



AdiTlt Female.' — Chin and throat white^ barred with black like 

 the breast ; but distinguished from the female of T. rufilatus 

 by the entire absence of rufous on the sides of the belly, thighs, 

 and under tail-coverts, which are whitish. 



Range. — Gunong Api Island, Sumbawa. 



B. Middle of the breast not transversely barred with black ; 

 throat never black ; middle tail-feathers lengthe/ied^ 

 pointed and edged with white or buff ; feathers of the 

 upper-parts edged with ivhite or buff, givifig the back a 

 scaly appeara7ice. 



V. THE ANDALUSIAN BUSTARD-QUAIL. TURNIX SYLVATICA. 



Tetrao sylvaticiis^ Desfontaines, Mem. Ac. R. Sc. Paris, 1787, 



p. 500, pi. xiii. 

 Tetrao andalusicus and T. gibraltaricus, Gmel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p, 



766 (1788). 

 Turnix africanus, Bonn. Tabl. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 6 (1791). 

 Heinipodius tachydro;;i!is, Temm. ; Gould, B. Europe, iv. p. 264 



ph(i837). 

 Hemipodius hmatus, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 629, 756 



(1815)- 

 Turnix sylvaticus, Dresser, B. Europe, vii. p. 249, pi. 494 

 (1876); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 537 

 (1893) ; Irby, Orn. Gibraltar, 2nd ed. p. 241, pi. 



(1895)- 

 Adult Male and Female — Distinguished from the following 



