OTIDID.®. “319 
markings of inky-purple and dingy-yellow, the whole tending 
to forma cap or zone at the larger end. He 
They measure 0°87 inches in length by 0°75 in breadth. 
Turnix dussumierii, Zem. 
835.—T. syksit, A. Smith—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. IL 
p- 600 ; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. TV, p.9 ; Deccan, 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 424; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology 
of Sind, p. 217 ; Game Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 193 ; Swinhoe 
and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 152. 
THE SMALL BUTTON QUAIL. 
Length, 5°2 to 5°7; expanse, 9:2 to 10°7 ; wing, 2°76 to 3:0; 
tail, 1:25 to 15; bill from gape, 0°5 to 0°56 ; tarsus, 0°'7 to 0°75 ; 
weight, 1;!, oz. to 14 oz. 
Bill from leaden-white to plumbeous ; irides light yellow to 
straw-white ; legs and feet pale fleshy-white. 
Head brown, black barred, with a pale supercilium and central 
stripe ; upper parts chesnut-brown, each feather finely barred 
with black, and edged with _ yellowish-white, conspicuously on 
the scapulars and part of the back and on the wing-coverts so 
broadly as to appear entirely yellowish-white with chesnut, black- 
edged spots; quills dusky-brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts 
dark-brown, closely barred with black, and with faint whitish 
edges to the feathers ; throat whitish, witha few blackish specks 
on the sides ; breast pale ferruginous, with the sides of the neck 
and breast with dark-brown drops and lunules ; abdomen whitish. 
The Lesser Button Quail is more or lesscommon throughout 
our limits. It does not appear to ascend the hills to any great 
height. 
Orper, Grallatores. 
Lower part of the tibia bare ; tarsus more or less elongated ; 
feet of most, with the hind-toe imperfect and raised, or absent ; 
in a few long, and on the same plane, as the front toes ; bill very 
varied ; tail usually short ; wings lengthened. 
Trisz, Pressirostris. 
Tarsi elongated ; hind-toe small or absent ; bill moderate or 
short, thick, moderately depressed at the base, compressed on the 
side. 
Famity, Otididee. 
Bill rather short, stout, broad at the base, somewhat compressed 
towards the tip ; upper mandible convex and slightly curved; 
nostrils in a large membranous groove ; legs long, rather stout ; 
tarsi reticulated ; three short toes united at the base by a small 
membrane ; hind-toe always absent; claws short and blunt; wings 
ample, more or less pointed ; plumage mottled and game-like. 
