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462 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on the Genus Tumix. 



of the breast and belly spotted with black is for convenience' 

 sake placed by itself in the Key. 



6. TURNIX SYLVATICA (Dcsf.). 



(1787.) Tetrao sylvaticus, Desfontaines, Mem. Ac. R. Sc. 

 Paris, 1787, p. 500, pi. xiii. 



Tumix sylvatica, Dresser, B. of Europe, vii. p. 249, pi. 494. 



Of this well-known species, which is found in S. W. Europe 

 and N. Africa, little or nothing need be said beyond that, as 

 far as plumage goes, it is absolutely identical with the next- 

 mentioned species or race T. lepurana, which ranges, so far 

 as is known, from Fantee to Bechuanaland and Massailand. 

 The differences pointed out in my Key present all the dis- 

 tinctive characters which distinguish this species from the 

 allied Hemipodes. 



7. TuRNix LEPURANA (Smith). 



(1836.) Ortygis lepurana, Smith, Rep. of Exp. App. p. 55. 



(1849.) Hemipodius lepurana. Smith, Illust. Zool. S. Afr. 

 pi. xvi. with text. 



This so-called species, which was first described by Smith 

 from Bechuanaland, is simply a smaller race of the South- 

 European and North-African T. sylvatica, with which it is 

 absolutely identical except in size. In the female of T. sylva- 

 tica the wing is about 3*7 inches and in that of the race 

 T. lepurana it is only ca. 3*3 inches. 



The range of this race appears to be from Bechuanaland 

 to the Accra district of the Gold Coast, roughly speaking ; 

 but it is probably also found in all the grassy valleys further 

 north, and has been recorded from Massailand by Dr. S. A. 

 Fischer. The type of this species, obtained at Kurichane by 

 Smith, is in our National Collection. 



8. TuRNix DussuMiERi, Tcmm. 



(1822.) Tumix dussumieri, Temminck, PI. Col. d'Ois. 

 vol. V. pi. 454. fig. 2. 



(1837.) Hemipodius variabilis, Hodgson, MS. (?), Beng. 

 Sport. Mag. 1837, p. 345. 



(1849.) Hemipodius sykesi, Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr. ii. 

 (see H. lepurana, pi. 16, footnote). 



