Mr, W. R. Ogilvic-Grant on the Genus Turnix. 455 



where it is small the birds are very bright rufous. I may- 

 refer my readers to the map of India, showing the moan 

 annual distribution of the rainfall in English inehes, pub- 

 lished by Mr. Hume in ' Stray Feathers/ vol. vii. p. 501 



(1878). 



1. TuRNix TAiGooR (Sykes) *. 



(1832.) Hemipodius taigoor, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 155 ; 

 Beng. Sport. Mag., Oct. 1836, p. 171, pi. i. hg. 8 ( ? ad.). 



(1837.) Turnix plumhhpes, Hodgson, MS. (?), Bengal Sport. 

 Mag., May 1837, p. 34(3. 



(1839.) Hemipodius atrogularis, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, 

 p. 107. 



(1842.) Turnix taigoor, Blyth, J. As. Soc. Beng. 1842, 

 p. 803 ^. 



(1861.) Turnix rostrata, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, p. 50. 



(1871.) Areoturnix hlakistoni, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, 

 p. 401. 



The furthest range of this species, so far as is at present 

 known, is the Loo Choo Islands, whence a male specimen 

 was procured by Mr. Namiye, and first recorded by Mr. 

 Stejncger in his paper on the "Birds of Japan" (P. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. ix. p. 635) under the name of T. hlakistoni — a 

 name given by Mr. Swinhoe to a male specimen obtained at 

 Canton, where the annual rainfall is 69 inches. Since 

 then, Mr. Seebohm has procured a second specimen, an 

 adult female, from Loo Choo, and this, together with Mr. 

 Swinhoe's male type from Canton, he has, with his usual 

 generosity, lent me for inspection. The characters which 

 Mr. Swinhoe ascribed to this species as distinguishing 

 it from T. pugnax (as he called it, meaning "plumbipes" 

 type) of Malacca were its smaller size, shorter toes, and 

 small bill, and he adds that " instead of spots it has nu- 

 merous bands across the breast ^'f, and its upper parts are 



" I use the expression " taiyoor '' type in the sense in which it is 

 understood by Hume in his * Game Birds,' i. e. to express the rufous 

 phase of this bird ; while '■^ i^lumhijtes'''' is used to express the brown phase. 



t It is diihcult to understand wliat Swiuhoe can liave meant by this 

 expression, as he had previously remarked that his spccimtn hehmtred tri 



