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2. Hemripopivus Taricoor. 
Tab. IV. 
Hem. supra castaneus ; plumis stramineo marginatis nigroque undulatim fasciatis ; tegmi- 
mibus alarum stramineis nigro fasciatis ; remigibus fuscis ; mento guldque albis ; pec- 
tore mgro alboque fasciato ; ventre crissoque dilute ferrugineis. 
Trides pallidé flave ; rostrum nigrescens. 
Long. corporis 444, unc. ; caude, 1. 
I was at first disposed to regard this species as the immature bird of the Hem. pugnaz; 
but finding the manifestations of sex fully developed, and some peculiarities of plumage 
permanent, I proposed it as a new species: and my opinion has been strengthened, as I 
before mentioned, by M. Temminck not meeting with it among his specimens of Hem. 
pugnax. It differs from Hem. pugnaz only in its more slender bill, its white chin and 
throat, its dilute red instead of rufous belly and vent, and in the colours of the plumage 
being much less brilliant. It has the same chestnut, black, and straw-yellow bars and 
bands above, and the same black transverse numerous bars on the breast, although the 
latter are somewhat more slender than in Hem. pugnar. Its measurements correspond 
very closely with those of Hem. pugnaz, but the bird on the whole is less robust. 
I did not remark any peculiarity in the internal organization differing from the pre- 
ceding species to call for notice. 
3. Hemipopius DussumizEr1, Temm. 
Button Quail of European sportsmen in India. 
This bird, which is not in M. Temminck’s ‘ Pigeons et Gallinacés’, is very well figured 
and described by him in his ‘ Planches Coloriées’,! excepting probably that the colours 
on the back are scarcely dark enough and rich enough. His specimens were obtained 
from Bengal. 
Tongue as in the Quails. Irides yellow. Legs whitish. Sexes alike. 
They affect thick short grass and fields of pulse of Dolichos biflorus, Phaseolus Maz, 
and Ervum Lens. I never found the bird otherwise than solitary. It is so difficult to flush, 
that it not unfrequently rises from beneath the feet ; and when on the wing, its flight 
is so abrupt, angular, and short, that it is generally down ere the gun is well up to 
the shoulder. 
The following are the measurements : bill to the gape =% inch; height at the nostrils 
barely .*, inch: length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail 5.2, to 5, inches : 
tail 1,s, and 1,5, inch, very narrow and subulate: tibie 1.4; inch: tarsi 44 inch: 
middle toe and nail +2 inch, nail -, inch. 
1 Pl. 454. fig. 2. 
