THREE-TOED OR BUSTARD-QUAILS. 



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Mr. John W^hitchcad, in whose honour this species has 

 been named, lias recently sent me two adult males and an 

 immature female of this species, obtained in the vicinity of 

 Manila. In most instances, one would hesitate to describe a 

 new species of Tuniix, without having an adult female for 

 comparison, but the males before me are so totally distinct 

 from any species hitherto described, that there can, in this 

 instance at least, be no doubt as to its being a new form. It 

 is very curious that this species should not have been met with 

 by any of the numerous naturalists who have collected round 

 about Manila, and it only shows how easily birds of this kind 

 may be overlooked. 



d. Middle tail-feathers not lengthened and pointed^ nor edged icith 

 white or buff ; feathers of the back without any scaly 

 appearance ; shou/de?'feathers not edged with goldc?i-buff. 



X. blanford's bustard-quail, turnix blanfordi. 

 Turnix macutatus, Vieill. {iiec Heuiipodius niaculosus^ Temm.), 



N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxv. p. 47 (1819). 

 Turnix blaifordi, Blyth, J. As. Soc. Beng. xxxii. p. 80 (1863); 



Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 542 (1893). 

 Turnix f?iaculosa, Hume & Marshall, Game Birds Ind. ii. 



p. 183, pk (1879). 

 Hemipodius viciarius^ Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 187 1, p. 402 [adult 



male]. 

 Hemipodius chrysostoinus^ Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. N. H. (4) xii. 



P- 375 {1873) [adult female]. 

 Hemipodius variabilis^ Prjevalski, Voy. Ussuri, no. 139. 



Adult Male. — Differs from the female in having no rufous 

 nuchal collar. Total length, 5-8 inches; wing, 3-5; tail, 1*3; 

 tarsus, 0-95. 



Adult Female. — General colour above greyish-brown, irregu- 

 larly blotched and mottled with black and sometimes with 

 traces of rufous ; a well-defined rufous nuchal collar ; chin and 

 middle of throat whitish-buff; sides of throat, chest and breasf 



