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10. TURNIX WORCESTERI McGregor. 
WORCESTER’S BUTTON QUAIL, 
Turnix worcester. McGREGor, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4, 8, pl. 1, 
fig. 1; McGrecor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 8. 
Luzon (McGregor). 
Adult (sexes nearly alike)—General color above black; forehead 
spotted with white; feathers of crown and nape tipped with pale buff 
and some edged with white, producing an incomplete white line on middle 
of head (this line may be perfect in a well made skin) ; feathers on back 
and rump barred and tipped with pale buff; tertials and scapulars edged 
with whitish buff; feathers on sides of face mostly white with black 
tips; lores white; feathers on sides of neck black, each with a wide, sub- 
terminal, white bar; a small black spot behind ear; breast and throat 
rusty buff or dark clay-color, this color extending up each side of the 
white chin-area as rusty-buff tips to the feathers and bounded above by the 
black-tipped white feathers of malar region ; flanks, under tail-coverts, and 
sides of abdomen and breast also rusty buff, but paler; middle of abdomen 
whitish ; a few feathers on sides of abdomen barred with blackish brown; 
primaries, their coverts, and secondaries drab-gray ; four outer primaries 
narrowly edged with whitish; secondaries barred with whitish on outer 
webs; secondary-coverts blackish, mottled and edged with pale buff; 
rectrices blackish, edged with buff. Bill pale bluish; legs flesh-pink, nails 
slightly darker; iris very pale yellow. A male measures: Length, 120; 
wing, 65; tail, 27; culmen from base, 10; depth of bill at angle of 
gonys, 5; tarsus, 17; middle toe with claw, 16. Length of female, 128; 
wing, 71; tail, 23.5; culmen, 11.4; depth of bill at angle of gonys, 5.8; 
tarsus, 16.7; middle toe with claw, 18. ; 
Worcester’s quail is known from four specimens which were purchased 
in Quinta Market, Manila. It resembles 7’. whiteheadi but differs from 
that species in having the bill much deeper. Major E. A. Mearns 
informs me that he is quite sure that he saw a live bird of this species in 
Manila, in August, 1907. 
Order COLUMBIFORMES. 
DOVES AND PIGEONS. 
Tip of bill horny and strongly convex forming a “nail” which is often 
of a shade or color different from that of the soft, contracted, basal por- 
tion; covering of nostril generally tumid; toes four, three in front, cleft 
to the base or with a slight web; hind toe not elevated; legs and toes 
never much lengthened; tarsus either slightly longer or slightly shorter 
than middle toe without claw; wing flat and rather long; in several 
genera the primaries variously cut or attenuated; tail usually square or 
slightly rounded ; never forked; in Macropygia and Geopelia the rectrices 
