tllREE-TOED OR EUSTARD-QUAlLS. 285 



Adult Male. — Differs from \ki& female in having the top of the 

 head umber-drown hke the back ; the sides of the head white, 

 tipped with black ; the chin and middle of the throat /z<;/'^ white; 

 the chest and breast whitish-buff with a wide V-shaped black 

 bar near the extremity of each feather. Total length, 6-3 

 inches; wing, 4-1 ; tail, i"6; tarsus, o"95. 



Adult Female. — General colour above umber-brown, mixed 

 with chestnut and barred with black ; wing-coverts mostly 

 chestnut with white black-edged spots ; the forehead, sides of 

 the face and throat black ; top of the head mixed chestnut and 

 black ; chest and breast black, most of the feathers tipped with 

 white; belly dark grey marbled with buff and black. Total 

 length, 7*5 inches; wing, 4*4; tail, 17; tarsus, I'o. 



Range. — Eastern Australia. 



Nest. — Merely a slight depression beside a tuft of grass. 



Eggs. — Three to four in number ; ground colour pale whitish- 

 buff with pale lilac under-markings, minutely and thickly 

 freckled all over with light reddish-brown and blotched with 

 chestnut-brown and black. Measuremicnts, i'i2 by 0*9 inch. 



XIX. THE VARIEGATED BUSTARD-QUAIL. TURNIX VARIA. 



Perdix varius, Latham, Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. Ixii. (1801). 



Hemipodius varius, Gould, B. Austr. v. pi. 82 (1848). 



Hemipodius scifttillafis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1845, p. 62 ; id. B 

 Austr. V. pi. 83 (1848). 



Turnix varia, Gould, Handb. Austr. B. ii. p. 179 (1865); 

 North, Nests and Eggs B. Austr. p. 285 (1889) ; Ogilvie- 

 Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 551 (1893). 



Adult Male. — Differs from the female in having 7to rufous 

 nuchal collar ; the chest buff, irregularly spotted and marked 

 with grey. Total length, 6 '4 inches; wing, 37; tail, 17; 

 tarsus, o*8. 



Adult Female. — General colour above black, barred with rufous 

 and shading into chestnut on the back of t lie neck ; wing-coverts 



