280 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
it is almost useless trying to put up one of these Button Quails 
a second time. 
“ Like all the Quails, they may be occasionally seen at early 
morn and eve feeding along the paths running through, or in 
tiny open spaces in the midst of, the grass they live in. I have 
never seen them in field or stubbles, nor had any of the few I 
have examined eaten any grain, only grass seeds and small 
black fragments, which might have been portions of small hard 
seeds or of tiny Coleoptera.” 
Nest.—Composed of soft blades of dry grass, placed at the 
foot ef a tussock of coarse grass, the entrance-hole being on 
one side, and extending nearly to the top of the nest. 
(EZ. A. Butler.) 
Eggs.—Smaller than those of Z. ¢fazgoor, of a dirty yellowish 
white colour, thickly speckled, spotted and blotched all over 
with brownish-black. Shell highly glossed. Measurements, 
0°84 by 0°63 inch. (4. A. Butler.) 
XII. THE NICOBAR BUSTARD-QUAIL. TURNIX ALBIVENTER, 
Turnix albiventris, Hume, Str. F. i. p. 310 (1873) ; Hume & 
Marshall, Game Birds Ind. il. p. 199, pl. (1879) ; Ogilvie- 
Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 545 (1893). 
Adult Male.— Like the male of 7. blanfordi, but the back is 
darker brownish-grey, irregularly blotched and mottled with 
black and rufous. Vo rufous nuchal collar. ‘Total length, 
5°3 inches; wing 3; tail, 1°1 ; tarsus, 0°85. 
Adult Female——Differs from the female of TZ. blanfordi in 
having the back darker brownish-grey, irregularly blotched and 
mottled with black and rufous ; the nuchal collar deeper rufous 
and wider. ‘Total length, 5°5 inches; wing, 3°2; tail, 1-2; 
tarsus, 0°9. 
Younger examples resemble the immature of 7. blanfordt. 
