20 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
6. TURNIX eee tet (Scopoli). 
SPOTTED BUTTON QUAIL. 
Oriolus ocellatus Scopot, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), pt. 2, 88. 
Turnix ocellata GRANT, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 22, 548; SHARPE, 
Hand-List (1899), 1, 49; McGrecor and WorcrEsTER, Hand-List 
(1906), 8. 
Pu-gong gu’-bat, Manila. 
Luzon (Hverett, Heriot, Whitehead, McGregor, Worcester, Mearns). 
Adult male——Above mottled and spotted ; head and sides of face black 
with roundish white spots and some rusty edging to feathers; rest of 
upper parts with large black centers to feathers whose edges are light 
buff and tips rusty; a shght trace of a chestnut nuchal collar; chin and 
middle of throat white; breast uniform rufous-chestnut; middle of belly 
dirty white; flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts dirty buff; primaries 
brown with pale edges; secondaries mottled and with wider, buff edges ; 
coverts and tertials buff, each with a larger, roundish, black spot. “Iris 
white, upper mandible grayish brown at tip, pale yellow from nostrils 
back; lower mandible pale yellow, except tip light brown, legs and feet 
light straw-yellow, except joints and soles light brown; nails gray. 
Length, 165.” (Worcester.) A specimen from Benguet measures: 
Wing, 93; tail, 33; culmen, 15; tarsus, 25; middle toe with claw, 24. 
Adult female——Similar to male but larger; throat and chin black; 
chestnut of breast continued above as a wide nuchal collar. Iris white; 
bill pale yellow, grayish at tip; legs dull yellow; nails whitish. Length, 
180; wing, 115; tail, 37; culmen, 17; tarsus, 29; middle toe with claw, 
27.5. These measurements are from a specimen taken near Manila. 
Young.—In young males the throat is more or less spotted with black 
and many of the breast-feathers are subterminally spotted with black. In 
young females the throat is more or less spotted with white. 
This is much the largest of the Philippine button quails and appears 
to be confined to the Island of Luzon. 
7. TURNIX WHITEHEADI Grant. 
WHITEHEAD’S BUTTON QUAIL. 
Turnix whiteheadi GRANT, Hand-Book Game Bds. (1896), 2, 276; WHITE- 
HEAD, Ibis (1899), 5, 493; SHARPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 48; Mc- 
GREGOR, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4, 7, pl. 1, fig. 2; McGrecor 
and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 8. 
Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor). 
Adult male.—General color above black, finely vermiculated with gray 
and dull reddish brown or with dull chestnut; crown mostly black with 
dull chestnut tips to the feathers; a distinct median line of buff from 
bill to neck ; many feathers on back edged with buff or whitish buff; fore- 
head and whole side of face pale buff, most of the feathers black tipped ; 
