430 On a neiv Species of Hemipode from Neiv Britain. 



3. TURNIX SCINTILLANS. 



Turnix scintillans, Gould, B. A. v. pi. Ixxxiii.; Handb. ii. 

 p. 181. 



Abrolhos Islands, W. Australia {Gould). 



4. TUHNIX MELANONOTA. 



Turnix melanotns, Gould, B. A. v. pi. Ixxxiv ; Handb. ii. 

 p. 182. 



Moreton Bay {Gould) ; Cape York {H.M.S. 'Challenger') ; 

 Lizard Island {Jukes in B.M.); Wide Bay, Richmond and 

 Clarence River districts, N. S.Wales, and interior {Ramsay). 



5. Turnix saturata, mihi. 



New Britain {Layard, Kleinschmidt) ; Duke-of-York group 

 {Layard) . 



6. Turnix rufescens. 



Turnix rufescens, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 497. 



Samao Island, Timor {Wall.). 



This species I only know from a single specimen obtained by 

 Mr. Wallace, and therefore probably the type of his descrip- 

 tion (.9. c), in the British Museum, This skin is in poor 

 condition ; but the species, though near to T. nielanonota, is 

 apparently a good one, distinguishable by the scapularies 

 having no edging of creamy buff, as in the last-named bird. 

 A further series of specimens will be necessary to decide the 

 question. Mr. Wallace describes the irides as being brown, 

 whilst in Jukes^s specimen of T. melanonota from Lizard 

 Island they are called '' white,^' as also they are in Layard^s 

 skin of T. saturata from New Britain. According to Blyth 

 ('Ibis,^ 1867, p. 162) T. rufescens also occurs in Java; he 

 compares it to the Indian T. tatiki { = T. dussurnieri, apud 

 Jerdon, B. India, iii. p. 599). 



7. Turnix castanonota. 



Turnix castanonotus , Gould, B. A. v. pi. Ixxxv. ; Handb. ii. 

 p. 183. 



Northern and North-western Australia {Gould). 



8. Turnix velox. 



Turnix velox, Gould, B. A. v. pi. Ixxxvii. ; Handb. ii. p. 185. 



