TIREE-TOED OR BUSTARD-QUAILS., 285 
Adult Male.—Differs from the female in having the fop of the 
head umber-brown like the back; the sides of the head zwAz/e, 
tipped with black ; the chin and middle of the throat pure white ; 
the chest and breast whitish-buff with a wide V-shaped black 
bar near the extremity of each feather. Total length, 63 
iaehes)s; wing, 4°1 ; tail, 1°6 ; tarsus, 0°95. 
Adult Female-—General ‘colour above umber-brown, mixed 
with chestnut and barred with black; wing-coverts mostly 
chestnut with white black-edged spots; the forehead, sides of 
the face and throat d/ack ; top of the head mixed chestnut and 
black ; chest and breast d/ack, most of the feathers 7ipped with 
white ; belly dark grey marbled with buff and black. ‘Total 
leneth; 7-5 inches ; wing, 4°4; tail, 177 5 tarsus, ro. 
Eastern Australia. 
Range. 
Nest.—Merely a slight depression beside a tuft of grass. 
Eggs.—Three to four in number ; ground colour pale whitish- 
buff with pale lilac under-markings, minutely and _ thickly 
freckled all over with light reddish-brown and blotched with 
chestnut-brown and black. Measurements, 1°12 by o'g inch. 
XIX. THE VARIEGATED BUSTARD-QUAIL. TURNIX VARIA. 
Perdix varius, Latham, Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. Ixii. (1801). 
Hemipodius varius, Gould, B. Austr. v. pl. 82 (1848). 
Femipodius scintillans, Gould, P. Z. S. 1845, p. 62; id. B 
Austr. v. pl. 83 (1848). 
Turnix varia, Gould, Handb. Austr. B. ii. p. 179 (1865); 
North, Nests and Eggs B. Austr. p. 285 (1889) ; Ogilvie- 
Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 551 (1893). 
Adult Male—Differs from the /fema/e in having zo rufous 
nuchal collar; the chest buff, irregularly spotted and marked 
wita grey. Total length, 6-4 inches; wing, 3°7; -tail, 1°7; 
tarsus, 0°8. 
Adult Female-—General colour above black, barred with rufous 
and shading into ches/(nut on the back of the neck ; wing-coverts 
