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



14. Turnix maculosa (Tcmm.). 



(1815.) Hemipodius maculosus, Temrainck, Pig. et Gall, 

 iii. pp. 631, 757. 



(1819.) Turnix maculosus, Stephens, Shawns Gen. Zool. xi. 

 p. 394. 



(1 823.) Turnix maculatus, Vieillot, Encycl. M^th. i. p. 330. 



(1825.) Turnix maculatus, Vieillot, Galerie des Ois. ii. 

 p. 51, pi. 217 (good). 



(1837.) Hemipodius melanotus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 8. 



(1848.) Hemipodius melanotus, Gould, B. Australia, v. 

 pi. 84, with text. 



The younger birds of this species bear a close resemblance 

 to those of the three last-mentioned Asiatic forms, but are 

 of course at once distinguished by the scapulars being edged 

 widely with buff or straw-colour. The changes in the plumage 

 appear also to be much the same. In the female the rufous 

 and black markings of the upper surface become rather more 

 faint as age advances, and a wide light rufous nuchal collar is 

 developed, while the superciliary stripe and ear-coverts be- 

 come bright buff, as also the throat, but to a less degree. 



The adult male, like the others in this group, has, of course, 

 no rufous nuchal collar, but is otherwise similar in colour 

 and markings to the female, though somewhat paler. 



The reasons for discarding Mr. Gould's name melanotus, 

 which has been commonly used to designate this species, 

 have been fully explained in writing on T. blanfordi (see 

 p. 467), to which the term maculosa has been erroneously 

 referred by the majority of authors. 



15. Turnix rufescens, Wallace. 



(1863.) Turnix rufescens, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 497. 



? (1875.) Turnix beccarii, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Genov. vii. 

 p. 675. 



(1882.) Turnix rufescens, Forbes, Ibis, 1882, p. 430. 



The only representative of this so-called species is a type 

 specimen which is at present before me, and was obtained 

 by Wallace in the island of Semao. It is not sexed, but 

 appears to be a nearly mature male, and closely allied both to 

 T. saturata of New Britain and to T. maculosa of Australia, 



