THREE-TOED OR BUSTARD-QUAILS. 277 
Mr. John Whitehead, in whose honour this species has 
been named, has recently sent me two adult males and an 
immature female of this species, obtained in the Vicinity of 
Manila. In most instances, one would hesitate to describe a 
new species of Zurnix, without having an adult female for 
comparison, but the males before me are so totally distinct 
from any species hitherto described, that there can, in this 
instance at least, be no doubt as to its being anew form. It 
is very curious that this species should not have been met with 
by any of the numerous naturalists who have collected round 
about Manila, and it only shows how easily birds of this kind 
may be overlooked. 
@. Middle tail-feathers not lengthened and potnted, nor edged with 
white or buff; feathers of the back without any scaly 
appearance ; shoulderfeathers not edged with golden-buff. 
X. BLANFORD’S BUSTARD-QUAIL. TURNIX BLANFORDI. 
Lurnix maculatus, Vieill. (nec Llemipodius maculosus, Temm.), 
N. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. xxxv. p. 47 (1819). 
Lurnix blanfordt, Blyth, J. As. Soc. Beng. xxxii. p. 80 (1863) ; 
Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. Pp. 542 (1893). 
Turnix maculosa, Hume & Marshall, Game Birds Ind. ii, 
p. 183, pl. (1879). 
Llemipodius viciarius, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 402 [adult 
male]. 
Llemipodius chrysostomus, Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. N. H. (4) xii. 
Pp. 375 (1873) [adult female]. 
Llemipodius variabilis, Prjevalski, Voy. Ussuri, no. 1309. 
Adult Male—Differs from the female in having no rufous 
nuchal collar. Total length, 5°8 inches ; wing, 3°5 ; tail, Tiga 
tarsus, 0°95. 
Adult Female.—General colour above greyish-brown, irregu- 
larly blotched and mottled with black and sometimes with 
traces of rufous ; a well-defined rufous nuchal collar » chin’ and 
middle of throat whitish-buff ; sides of throat, chest and breast 
