Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on the Genus Turnix. 467 



(1873.) Hemipodim chrysostomus, Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. N. 

 Hist. 4th series, xii. p. 375 ( ? ad.). 



Hemipodius catharcus, Swinhoe, MS. ($ imm.). 



In the female the rufous in the feathers of the upper 

 surface gradually disappears with age_, except on the neck, 

 where it concentrates and forms a wide rufous collar, and the 

 general tone of the back becomes slaty brown vermiculated 

 and irregularly blotched with black, while a few of the feathers 

 still show faintly the whitish spots and markings of younger 

 examples. 



The name maculosa, which has been erroneously applied 

 to this species by all the more recent authors, belongs in 

 reality to the allied Australian form commonly known as 

 T. melanotus, Gould. One cannot see how this mistake can 

 have arisen, as Temminok distinctly says that his bird came 

 from New Holland, although Yieillot, in his ' Galerie des 

 Oiseaux,' ii. p. 51, pi. 217, states that the exact locality is 

 somewhat doubtful. Anyone reading Temminck's original 

 description carefully and glancing at Vieillot's plate (which 

 is a very good one of a fully adult female) must see at once 

 that neither refer to the Burmo-Malayan Button Quail, as 

 Mr. Hume calls it. This latter bird must therefore be known 

 in future by the next oldest name, T, blanfordi, Blyth. 



13. Turnix albiventris, Hume. 



Turnix albiventris, Hume, Str. F. i. p. 305. 



This species somewhat resembles T. blanfordi in having 

 the upper parts blotched and vermiculated with black in the 

 most adult female specimens, but the rufous in the feathers of 

 the back is also retained, and the nuchal collar is much wider 

 and of a deeper rufous than in the two preceding species. 



The most adult male in our series is scarcely to be distin- 

 guished in plumage from old examples of T. blanfordi, the 

 only apparent character being that a small amount of 

 rufous is still intermixed in the upper surface ; but this may 

 possibly be due to its not being so old a bird, though fully 

 adult. The diiference in size is, of course, marked. 



This species is found in the Nicobar and Andaman Islands. 



