2 WHITE, Xesf and Ef/ys of Tnrmx oUvil T^ S" 



Collector's measurement in flesh: — Length, 183 mm.; wing, 93; 

 culmen, 15; tarsus, 22. C I'lesiotype, "H. L. White Coll.," Xat. 

 Mus., Melbourne.) 



Adult Female. — Forehead and lores du>k)- neutral grey ; crown 

 deep neutral grey ; sides of crown chestnut-brown mottled black ; 

 ear-coverts mouse grey ; hind-neck auburn ; sides of neck neutral 

 grey ; mantle and scapulars auburn, some feathers with black 

 bars and edged with i)ale olive-grey; back, rump upper tail- 

 coverts and tail auburn ; lesser wing-coverts light mouse grey 

 mottled black and brown ; median and greater wing-coverts hazel, 

 some feathers like mantle with several black bars and edged with 

 pale olive-grey; i)rimary-coverts, secondaries and primaries 

 chaetura drab feathers tipped more or less with dull white, and 

 ])rimaries edged on outer web with pale smoke grey; chin and 

 throat whitish ov ])ale smoke grey; fore-neck and breast citrine- 

 drab or greyish olive; abdomen pallid neutral grey; under tail- 

 coverts warm buff; tibia neutral grey. "Bill pale dull olive, irides 

 -and legs yellow" (W. McLennan). Collector's measurements in 

 flesh: — Length, 221 mm.; wing, 103; culmen, 17; tarsus, 30. 

 (I'lesiotvpe, "H. L. White Coll.." Xat. ;Mus., Melbourne.) 



Description of Nest and Eggs of Turnix olivii 

 (Robinson) 



iU- U. L. WHITE, C.F.A.(;.U., M.B.O.U., "Belltrees." Scone, 

 N.S.W. 



With the exce[)tion of the searches made by Sid. W. Jackson 

 for the eggs of .Itriclwrnis rnfcscens (Rufous Scrub-Bird) 

 and F. L. Whitlock for those of Bremiornis cartcri (Desert- 

 Bird), I know of nothing so remarkable as the work put in by 

 W. McLennan in his long hunt after the elusive Turnix ol'n'ii 

 ( P.uiT-breasted (Juail ) . 



His labour and perseverance were rewarded by three clutches 

 of eggs of this previously practically unknown bird ; one of the 

 sets goes to Messrs. Bettington's "Terragong" Collection, while 

 the others remain in my own. 



The locality worked over is near Coen, at the base of the Cape 

 York Peninsula, and about 180 miles north-west from Cooktown: 

 a district not easy of access, but rich in bird life. Tn his very 

 full daily notes, McLennan first mentions the bird on October 

 31st, 1921. He kept in touch with it up to .\pril 5th, 1022. 



Tv/'t'-^'.— Clutch, four eggs, roundish in shape, much com- 

 y)ressed and pointed at one end, forming cpiite a dumi)y pyriform 

 sha[)e, more so than any others of the Quail family that have 

 come unflcr my notice. Ground colour whitish, minutely speckled, 

 si)otted, and blotched all over with markings of reddish-brown, 

 bluish-grev. and black, the last two colours being the most pre- 



