10. THE LITTLE BUTTON-QUAIL. 



Turnix dussumieri^ (Temminck). 



No bars across the breast. 

 Tail-feathers margined with buff, and 



the middle pair lengthened and 



pointed. 



Sexes alike. 



Vernacular Names : — Ghmwa-Lowa, 

 Chota-lowa, Dabki, Tura, Hind. ; 

 Chimnaj, Muttra ; Libbia, Purneah ; 

 Tatu-butera, Sind ; Durwi, Marathi ; 

 Chinna (or Tellaydabba gundlu, Telugu ; 

 San gundlu, Orissa ; Ngon, Burmese. 



The Little Button-Quail has a very wide 

 distribution, but its exact limits are not 

 known with much certainty. It occurs 

 in the Punjab and Sind, and thence east- 

 wards to Bengal and southwards to 

 Mysore. It is found in the Himalayas 

 (up to an elevation of about 6000 feet) 

 from Simla to Sikhim and probably on 

 to Assam. It has been procured in the 

 Khasi hills, and I obtained a couple 

 of birds near the town of Pegu, so that 

 60 



