TURNIX. 93 



47; David et Oust. Ois. C/i///i' p, 398. Turnix Blanfonli, Bly/h,y. A. S. 

 B. xxxii. p, 80; Blyth and JVa/d., B. Barm. p. 15 1. — Blaxford's or the 

 Burmo-IMalayan Button Quatl. 



Upper plumage rufous, black and yellow, the first two colours preponderating, 

 and the yellow disposed in oval drops not streaks ; wing coverts yellowish-buff, 

 with large black spots ; hind neck and upper back rufous, forming a broad 

 collar ; crown of the head blackish with a pale rufous mesial line ; sides of 

 the head buff, barred with black ; chin and throat buffy white ; breast, sides 

 of the body, vent, flanks and under tail coverts ferruginous ; sides of the 

 breast and sides of the body with large ovate or round spots of black. {Oates.) 

 Legs yellow ; upper mandible dark brown j lower mandible and gape pale 

 brown, tinged with yellow ; irides white. 



Length, Male—6'S inches 3 female 7; wing 3-62 ; tail 1-5; tarsus i ; bill 

 from gape 0"75. 



Hab. — Tenasserim, in Pegu, Arracan, and Hill Tipperah. Found about 

 gardens or in the immediate vicinity of cultivation. It is said to be hard to 

 flush, and only flies a short distance before again dropping. It is everywhere 

 thinly distributed, and is a terrible skulk, like Joudera, an allied species 

 which is barely separable from this. Nothing is known of its habits or 

 nidification. 



120. Turnix albiventris, Hume, Str. F. i. p. 310; ii. p. 281; 



id. and Marsh., Game Birds, ii. p. 199, pi. ; Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p, 

 571, No. 1243. — The NicoBAR Button Quail. 



Lores and a circle round the eye pale fulvous ; base of bill and two stripes 

 along the crown to the nape black, the feathers narrowly margined with 

 chestnut ; ear coverts fulvous, tipped darker ; sides of the neck fulvous buff^ 

 spotted with black ; sides and back of the neck, interscapulary region and 

 scapulars bright chestnut, more or less variegated with yellowish white and 

 black ; lower back and rump, also the upper tail coverts blackish brown, the 

 feathers tipped with chestnut, and a subterminal freckled bar of the same 

 colour ; tail feathers greyish brown with obsolete blackish brown bars ; pri- 

 maries, secondaries and greater coverts pale satin brown, the outer web of the 

 first nearly white ; rest narrowly edged with pale fulvous ; tertiaries pinkish- 

 brown, mottled %vith blackish brown towards their tips, and with a yellowish 

 brown spot there on the outer webs ; most of the secondary coverts pale buff, 

 with blackish brown irregularly shaped spots near the tips ; chin and upper 

 portion of the throat pure white ; rest of throat and middle of breast light 

 feruginous ; sides of the breast pale buff, with regular narrow transverse 

 blackish brown bars ; middle of abdomen white ; sides, vent, tibial plumes, 

 flanks and lower tail coverts tinged buffy. The female has the black stripes 

 on the head, edged with white and not chestnut ; the stripe dividing them is 



