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chin, upper throat, and abdomen white ; breast dark buff; a few black spots 
on sides of breast; a few feathers on sides, under wings, dull chestnut ; 
quills brown with light edges; long alula-quill edged with white; coverts 
largely ochraceous-buff or dull chestnut and more or less marked with 
large black spots; long scapulars broadly edged with ochraceous-buff or 
pale yellow-buff. Iris white; upper mandible dark horn; lower mandible 
dull blue; legs and nails flesh-colored. Length, about 120; wing, 56.5 
to 61; tail, 16.5 to 28; culmen, 9 to 10; tarsus, 16.5 to 18. 
Adult female—Differs from the adult male in having median crown- 
line and sides of face pale straw or whitish; a narrow collar of dull 
chestnut ; above generally darker and marked with a greater amount of 
dull chestnut. Wing, 60 to 64; tail, 18 to 22; culmen, 9.5 to 11.5; 
tarsus, 17 to 18. 
Young.—lmmature birds are similar to adults but have the breast 
white, streaked with dark brown; upper parts more uniformly and less 
richly colored. 
Eggs.—White with numerous, obscure, lac markings; around the 
larger end a band of dark sienna; larger end covered to middle of egg 
with a wash of dark brown; edge of this color-area well-defined and 
slightly irregular; smaller end of egg with a few small specks and a 
faint brown wash. Two eggs measure respectively 20 by 16 and 20 by 
16.5. Another egg, measuring 20.6 by 16.2, is white, speckled with brown 
and has nearly one-half the surface, at the larger end, covered with dark 
vandyke-brown. Eggs are deposited in August so far as known. 
The only known specimens of Whitehead’s button quail were purchased 
in the Quinta Market, Manila. It is said that they are trapped in the 
vicinity of Paranaque, some 7 kilometers from Manila. 
8. TURNIX SULUENSIS Mearns. 
SULU BUTTON QUAIL. 
Turnix suluensis MEARNS, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. (1905), 18, 883; McGrrcor 
and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 8. 
Sulu (Mearns). 
“Adult female (type and only specimen ).—General color of upper parts 
walnut-brown, the feathers finely banded and vermiculated with gray and 
black; top of head clove-brown, the feathers almost imperceptibly edged 
with gray, divided by a median stripe of isabella-color extending from the 
base of the bill to the occiput; sides of head and neck buffy white speckled 
with clove-brown; nape walnut-brown, the feathers edged with gray; 
mantle walnut-brown, the feathers edged with gray, and vermiculated 
with black, gray, and traces of very pale cinnamon; lower back, rump, 
and upper tail-coverts clove-brown, the feathers narrowly edged with gray 
on the back and upper rump, more broadly with cinnamon on the lower 
