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



by having the upper surface greyish brown more or less 

 blotched and vermiculated with black, while many of the 

 feathers of the mantle and back have a patch of rufous at 

 the tip, and are spotted or marked with dirty white, and it is 

 not till they have passed through this first stage and become 

 quite or almost quite adult that the striking specific differ- 

 ences assert themselves. These remarks also apply to the 

 other species above mentioned with slight modifications. 



11. TuBNix TANKi, Blyth. (Woodcutj fig. 1 b, p. 448.) 

 (1843.) Turnix tanki (Buchanan Hamilton), Blyth, J. As. 



Soc. Beng. 1843, p. 180^. 



(1846.) Turnix jouder a (Hodgson, MS.), Gray, Cat. Mamm. 

 and Birds of Nepal, p. 129. 



(1849.) Turnix joudera, Gray's Genera, iii. pi. 131 ( ? 

 ad. good). 



(1863.) Turnix dussumieri, Jerdon (nee Temminck), B. 

 India, ii. p. 599. 



In this and the two following species the scapulars are not 

 edged with golden buff. 



As maturity increases, the rufous in the upper surface of 

 the female disappears, except from the nuchal portion, where 

 a wide rufous collar is developed, and the back becomes 

 uniform slaty brown, with very faint indications of wavy 

 transverse lines of darker colour. The feathers of the head 

 become barred with black and buff, and the round black spots 

 on the sides of the breast usually become less numerous. In 

 the male the rufous entirely disappears from the plumage of 

 the whole upper surface, and the feathers become uniform 

 slate-brown crossed by wavy lines of black, more distinct 

 than in the female. 



12. Turnix blanfordi, Blyth. 



Turnix maculosa, auct. (nee Temminck). 



(1863.) Turnix blanfordi, Blyth, J. As. Soc. Beng. xxxii. 

 p. 80. 



(1871.) Hemipodius viciarius, Swinhoc, P. Z. S. 1871, 

 p. 402 {S ad.). 



