TURNICIDAE—BUSH-QUAIL. 233 
Family TURNICID:. 
Genus TURNIX. 
ANDALUSIAN BUSH-QUAIL OR 
HEMIPODE. 
Turnix sylvatica (Des/font.). 
Adult Female: General colour above sandy-brown ; on 
either side of crown a black and rufous longitudinal band ; 
remaining feathers dark brown, tipped with rufous ; feathers of 
back and scapulars and upper parts generally, finely pencilled 
with black, their centres marked with rufous ; many of wing- 
coverts boldly spotted with black ; wings dark brown, margined 
with pale brown ; sides of head buffy-white, barred with brown ; 
chin, upper throat, and centre of abdomen cream-colour , sides of 
neck, chest, szdes of body, flanks, and under tail-coverts pale 
ferruginous, 4o/dly spotted with black; bill, legs, feet and 
irides yellowish-brown. Length 8 inches; culmen 0°45 ; wing 
a°7 > tail 1°7 ; tarsus 1. 
Male: Much smaller, otherwise similar. 
Adult (Winter): Very similar, but duller and consider- 
ably whiter beneath, especially on the throat. 
Young: “Resembles the adult in winter dress, but there is 
more white in the markings of the plumage, the under parts are 
white, and the markings on the sides of the neck and flanks are 
reduced to dark brown dashes or blotches” (Dresser). 
Distribution : Found locally in Spain and Portugal, in 
Sicily and Northern Africa. 
Habitat: Ground covered with thick herbage or rough 
grass: often not far from water. 
