18 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDvS. 



Family TURNICIDJE. 



Size small, the largest Philippine species under 200 mm. in length, the 

 others much smaller. Birds of this family resemble Excalfactoria in 

 general form but may be recognized by their lack of a hind toe. They 

 are usually found in grassy plains. The flight is rapid but of short dura- 

 tion ; the birds get up at one's feet but seldom flush a second time. The 

 nest is placed on the ground beneath a tuft of grass ; eggs, three or four, 

 spotted with brown. 



Genus TURNIX Bonnaterre, 1790. 

 Characters same as those given for the Family. 



Species. 



a 1 . Breast without chestnut or rusty buff, heavily cross-barred with black. 



fasciata (p. 18) 

 a a . Breast chestnut or rusty buff, without black cross-bars. 



ft 1 . Larger; wing more than 80 mm.; breast rich chestnut; chin white ( <J ), or 



black ( 9 ) or white spotted with black (young) ocellata (p. 20) 



6 a . Smaller; wing less than 80 mm.; breast rusty buff; chin whitish. m>\w 



black nor mixed with black. 

 c 1 . Bill more slender, depth at angle of gonys, 4 mm. or less. 



d 1 . Smaller; wing, 57 to 60; tarsus, 16.5 to 18 mm whiteheadi (p. 20) 



d a . Larger; wing, 65.5 or more; tarsus, 19 mm. or more. 



e l . Larger; wing, 67 mm.; upper parts lighter suluensis (p. 21) 



e 9 . Smaller; wing, 65.5 mm.; upper parts darker celestinoi (p. 22) 



c 2 . Bill stouter, depth at angle of gonys, 5.8 mm Worcester! (p. 23) 



5. TURNIX FASCIATA (Temminck). 

 PHILIPPINE BUTTON QUAIL. 



Hemipodius fasciatus TEMMINCK, Pig. et Gall. (1815). 3, 634, 757. 



Turnix fasciata GRANT, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 22, 535; SHABPE, 

 Hand-List (1899), 1, 48; GATES, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1901), 1, 70; MC- 

 GREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 8. 



Turnix nigrescens TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 765. 



Turnix haynaldi BLASIUS, Ornis (1888), 4, 317. 



Pu-gong daan, Manila; tic-ti'-co, Calapan, Mindoro. 



Calamianes (Bourns d Worcester) ; Cebu (Everett, Bourns & Worcester) ; 

 Luzon (Everett, Heriot, Whitehead, McGregor, M earns) ; Masbate (Bmirn* d 

 Worcester) ; Mindoro (McGregor, Porter) ; Negros (Kteere Exp.) ; Palawan 

 (Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, White); Panay (Bourn* 

 d Worcester) ; Sibuyan (Bourns d Worcester). 



Adult male. Above blackish brown; feathers of back largely black 

 with white or buff margins; in some specimens the margins largely 

 rufous; chin and throat white; breast and sides light buff with clear-cut, 

 subterminal, black cross-bars ; abdomen and belly dirty white ; flanks and 



