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c’. Shoulder - feathers not edged with 
golden-buff. (Females with a well- 
defined rufous collar; males with- 
Out) (species 10 to 12, pp. 277-280). 
d. Shoulder-feathers edged with golden- 
buff (species 13 to 15, pp. 281-282). 
C. Neck and breast uniform bright rufous; upper tail- 
coverts very long, entirely covering the true tail 
(species 16, p. 283). 
II. Leg (metatarsus) equal to or shorter than the middle 
toe and claw. Bill very stout in some species (species 17 
to 22, pp. 284-289). 
I. Zarsus longer than the middle toe and claw. 
A. Entire breast transversely barred with black; belly 
immaculate; sexes different in plumage; middle of 
chin and throat black, or barred with black in the 
Jemales, white in the males. 
I. THE BUSTARD-QUAIL. TURNIX TAIGOOR. 
Hemipodius taigoor, Sykes, P. ZS. 1832, p. 155 ; id. Trans. Z. 
Sell ps 23, ph iv. (2842). 
Llemipodius plumbipes, Hodgson, Bengal Sport. Mag. May, 
1837, Pp. 346. 
Turnix ocellatus, Jerdon (nec Scop.), B. Ind. i. p. 597 (1864). 
Turnix taigoor, Jerdon, B. India, il. p. 595 (1864); Hume & 
Marshall, Game Birds of Ind. 11. p. 169, pl. (1879) ; Oates, 
ed. Humes Nests! Egos, Ind. Bi. mi. p. 367 (asaoyr 
Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 531 (1893). 
Turnix rostrata, Swinhoe, Ibis. 1865, p. 543. 
Areoturnix blakistont, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 401. 
Lurnix plumbipes, Hume & Marshall, Game Birds Ind. ii. p. 
177, pl. (1879). 
Adult Male—Chin and throat white, narrowly edged with 
