464 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on the Genus Turnix. 



follows : — cheeks, lores, superciliary stripe, neck, and breast 

 become bright uniform rufous buff, and the barring on the 

 latter is confined to the sides. In the male the changes are 

 similar, but the buff does not become so bright and pure 

 especially about the cheeks. 



This species appears to have a wide range, being repre- 

 sented by specimens from Natal and Accra on the Gold 

 Coast. 



10. Turnix hottentotta, Teram. 



(1815.) Turnix hottentotta, Temminck, Pig. et Gall. iii. 

 pp. 636, 757. 



The young of this species in most respects resembles 

 T. nana, but the belly as well as the breast is barred and 

 spotted with black. As age advances, the lores, superciliary 

 stripes, cheeks, neck, and breast become bright rufous buff, 

 the barring on the breast becomes confined to the sides, but 

 most of the feathers of the middle of the breast and of the 

 abdomen are ornamented with a rounded subtermiual black 

 spot. 



I am unable to state how the adult male diflFers from 

 the female, having no sexed specimen, but it is probably 

 similar, but less bright. 



This species appears to be confined to the extreme south 

 of the African continent south of the Great Karroo. 



Mr. Sharpe (Layard, 13. S. A. p. 607), quoting Capt. Shelley, 

 says that this bird [T. hottentotta) is fairly plentiful about 

 Pine-town. This is of course a mistake, as the birds obtained 

 by Capt. Shelley belong to T. nana. Moreover both Mr. 

 Layard in his 'Birds of S, Africa,' and Mr. Sharpe in his 

 second edition of that work, in describing T. hottentotta, make 

 no mention of any black spots on the feathers of the breast 

 and belly, which is almost the only distinctive character be- 

 tween this species and T. nana. On the other hand, Mr. 

 Layard distinctly says that " this handsome little bird is 

 found sparingly throughout the colony, evidently in the most 

 southern part of the continent," and that the wing is 3*4 (it is 

 3'2 in f. nana). These facts make mc think that his bird is 



