608 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
Above, variegated black, brown, and white: the colours so 
disposed on each feather as to make the bird appear scaly ; 
sides of the head, chin, throat, and breast, clear rufous, the 
sides of the latter variegated with a few black and white bars; 
belly and flanks albescent; vent, pale-rufous. Length, 6’ 4”; 
wing, 3” 4’"; tail, 13”. “ Beak flesh-colour, shaded on the culmen 
with pale brown ; irides white; legs flesh-colour” (Shelley). 
584, TURNIX LEPURANA (Smith). Kurrichane Hemipode. 
Discovered to the north of Latakoo, in grassy valleys, feeding on 
seeds and small insects. Like the colonial species, 7’. hottentotta, 
they seem difficult to flush a second time, and are never to be 
found in any numbers. 
Mr. Rickard writes from Port Elizabeth:—“In April, 1868, I 
saw several of these birds, and one was procured by a friend.” 
It does not occur in Captain Trevelyan’s lists, but Mr. Ayres 
states :—‘‘ These beautiful little birds appear in Natal with the 
common Quail, but by no means in such numbers. The sportsman 
will seldom flush more than two at once of these birds, while of 
the last-named species ten or twelve will frequently rise together.” 
Mr. Buckley states that he saw it on several occasions in the 
Matabele country. 
It has apparently not yet been forwarded from the Transvaal, 
but during Mr. Jameson’s expedition to Mashoona Land it was 
obtained at Palatswie Pan, on the 18th of December. Mr. 
Andersson writes: — “This species is not uncommon in Great 
Namaqua Land during the rainy season; but I have never found 
many of these birds together, and it is rarely that more than one of 
them is flushed at a time. Their favourite resorts are rank grassy 
spots in the neighbourhood of temporary rain-pools and periodical 
water-courses ; here they run about with great celerity, and, when 
hard pressed, lie so close as almost to allow themselves to be 
trodden on before they take wing, after which it is really impos- 
sible to flush them a second time. They feed on insects and 
seeds.” It has also been procured by Senor Anchieta, at Caconda, 
in the interior of Benguela. 
Male.—Above, ground colour, intermediate between pale rufous 
and light chestnut ; upper surface of head barred with brown ; on the 
neck, back, and shoulders, numerous slender, blackish brown bars, or 
