THREE-TOED OR UUSTARD-QUAILS. 28 I 



Range. — Nicobar and Andaman Islands. 



Habits. — The late Mr. W. R. Davison writes : — *' This Quail is 

 very rare in the Andamans, where I only once saw it, but at the 

 Nicobars, at least on Camorta Island, it is not uncommon, fre- 

 quenting the long grass, occasionally straying into gardens, &c. 

 I have never seen them in coveys, but have found them usually 

 in pairs, sometimes singly ; they are difficult to get, as they 

 will not rise without being almost trodden on. When they do 

 rise, they only fly such a short distance that it would be im- 

 possible to fire without blowing them to pieces, and then they 

 drop again into the long grass, from which it is almost im- 

 possible to flush them a second time. I have found them most 

 numerous in the large grassy tracts in the interior of Camorta." 



d^. Shoulder-feathers edged with golden-huff. 



xrii. temminck's bustard-quail, turnix maculosa. 



Hemipodius 7?iaculosus^ Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 631, 7=^7 



(1815)- 



Turnix fnaculatus^ Vieill. Gal. des Ois. ii. p. 51, pi. 217 (1825) 



[adult female]. 

 Hemipodius melanotus, Gould, B. Austr. v. pi. 84 (1848). 

 Turnix beccarii^ Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. vii. p. 675 



(1875). 

 Turnix maculosa, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 



546 (1893). 



Adult Male — Like the female, but there is no trace of a 

 rufous nuchal collar. Total length, 5*1 inches; wing, 2'8; 

 tail, I "2 ; tarsus, o'8. 



Adult Female. — Like the female of T. blanfordi, but at once 

 distinguished by the golden-buff or straw-coloured edges to the 

 shoulderfeathers (scapulars) ; there is also more rufous in the 

 plumage of the upper-parts below the rufous nuchal collar; 



