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rump and upper tail-coverts; tail grayish drab, the feathers perceptibly 
cross-banded with wavy lines usky, edged with cinnamon on outer 
webs, with middle pair of feathers extending 7 mm. beyond the next 
pair; scapulars and humerals conspicuously edged externally with golden 
buff and cinnamon; primaries grayish drab, the two outer ones edged 
externally with wood-brown; secondaries darker drab, edged with cin- 
namon on the outer web; greater wing-coverts cinnamon, drab at base, 
with a subterminal black spot on the outer web; lesser wing-coverts 
cinnamon-rufous, edged with buff, with a subterminal black ocellus; 
chin, upper throat, and malar region, whitish, the last speckled with 
blackish brown; lower neck and upper breast clay-color, bordered by a 
chain of oval black spots, the largest 3 mm. in length; lower breast and 
middle of belly whitish ; sides of lower neck, and sides of chest and breast, 
chestnut mixed with black and clay-color; flanks hight clay-color ; under 
tail-coverts darker clay-color; lining of wings pale clay-color and pale 
grayish drab. Length of skin, 120; wing, 68; tail, 31; culmen, 11.5; 
depth of bill at angle of gonys, 3.8; tarsus, 19.5.” (Mearns.) 
9. TURNIX CELESTINOI McGregor. 
CELESTINO’S BUTTON QUAIL, 
Turniz celestinoti McGrecor, Phil. Jour. Sei. (1907), 2, sec. A, 292, 317.. 
Bohol (McGregor). 
Adult male (type and only specumen).—Ground-color of upper parts 
black; feathers of head narrowly edged with dull buff, paler on forehead ; 
a narrow median line of pale buff from forehead to nape; hind neck, 
mantle, rump, and tail-coverts with wavy, broken, cross-lines of dark 
rusty buff, obsolete on neck; lores and side of head light buff with small 
black tips to feathers; a patch on each side of neck pale vinaceous-buff 
with narrow black cross-lines; chin and throat white, each feather with 
narrow buff tips, middle of abdomen white; rest of lower parts rusty 
buff or clay-color, a trifle lighter than in 7’. worcesteri; each feather on 
sides of breast marked with a wide black bar; primaries, secondaries, 
primary-coverts, and alula drab-gray; first primary and first feather of 
alula edged exteriorly with ocherous-buff; secondary-coverts and inner 
secondaries with wide edges of ocherous-buff preceded by large black spots 
or bars; wing-lining and axillars drab-gray; tail bluish slate and hidden 
by the long coverts. Length, 130; wing, 65.5; tail, 18.1; exposed culmen, 
11.5; depth of bill at angle of gonys, 4; tarsus, 20; middle toe with 
claw, 18.5. 
The only specimen known was taken on a grassy hill near the town 
of Guindulman, in Bohol, June 22, 1906. It is closely related to 7. 
suluensis. 
