458 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Graut on the Genus Turnix. 



as those from Southern India, but I have never seen an 

 example. 



Summing up these facts we arrive at the following 

 results : — 



1. That birds from N.E. Ceylon (?), South and Central 

 India, cannot be distinguished from specimens obtained in 

 Karennee, at Canton, and in the Loo Choo Islands, and are 

 of the true " taigoor " type. 



3. That specimens from Nawakote, Sikhim, and the Ma- 

 layan peninsula are similar to those from Siam and Formosa, 

 and are of the true " plumhipes " type. 



3. That specimens from Pegu, Thayetmyo, Ton ghoo, Shil- 

 long, the Nepal valley below Katmandoo and Calcutta repre- 

 sent every variety of intermediate stages between these two 

 types. 



4. That the amount of rainfall in these different places 

 and countries, where the tone of the upper plumage in the 

 birds is alike, is almost identical. 



5. That it is impossible to recognize more than one 

 species, Turnix taigoor (Sykes), in which the tone of the 

 upper parts varies in different localities from rufous to dark 

 brown grey in proportion as the rainfall is small or great in 

 that part of the country where the examples occur. Sykes's 

 type is preserved in our National Collection. 



I have been unable to discover any record of the rainfall 

 in the Loo Choo Islands or in S. Formosa, but at Kelung in 

 the north of the latter island the rainfall is 122 inches 

 (Schrenck, ' Reisenund Forsch. im Amur-Lande,^ iv. p. 490). 

 That of Loo Choo, judging from the specimens obtained at 

 Napa, should be less than 70 inches. At Bangkok the 

 rainfall is recorded by Dr. Campbell as being 67*04 inches 

 (Q. J. Met. Soc. V. p. 62). 



2. Turnix pugnax, Temm. 



Turnix pugnax, Temminck, Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 612, 754. 



Of the Ceylon birds, Blyth says there are two varieties — 

 one abundant throughout the flat northern half of the island, 

 which agrees with that of India generally ; the other with a 

 more deeply coloured cinnamon abdominal region, which is 



