20 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BINDS. 



6. TURNIX OCELLATA (Scopoli). 



SPOTTED BUTTON QUAIL. 



Oriolua ocellatus SCOPOLI, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), pt. 2, 88. 

 Turnix ocellata GRANT, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 22, 548; SHARH:, 

 Hand-List (1899), 1, 49; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List 



(1906), 8. 



Pu-gong gu'-bat, Manila. 



Luzon (Everett, Heriot, Whitehead, McGregor, Worcester, M earns). 



Adult male. Above mottled and spotted; head and sides of face black 

 with roundish white spots and some rusty edging to feathers; rest of 

 upper parts with large black centers to feathers whose edges are light 

 buff and tips rusty; a slight trace of a chestnut nuchal collar; chin and 

 middle of throat white; breast uniform ruf ous-chestnut ; middle of belly 

 dirty white; flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts dirty buff; primaries 

 brown with pale edges; secondaries mottled and with wider, buff edges; 

 coverts and tertials buff, each with a larger, roundish, black spot. "Iris 

 white, upper mandible grayish brown at tip, pale yellow from nostrils 

 back; lower mandible pale yellow, except tip light brown, legs and feet 

 light straw-yellow, except joints and soles light brown; nails gray. 

 Length, 165." (Worcester.) \ specimen from Benguet measures: 

 Wing, 93; tail, 33; culmen, 15; tarsus, 25; middle toe with claw, >M. 



Adult female. Similar to male but larger; throat and chin black; 

 chestnut of breast continued above as a wide nuchal collar. Iris white; 

 bill pale yellow, grayish at tip; legs dull yellow; nails whitish. Length, 

 180; wing, 115; tail, 37; culmen, 17; tarsus, 29; middle toe with claw, 

 27.5. These measurements are from a specimen taken near Manila. 



Young. In young males the throat is more or less spotted with black 

 and many of the breast-feathers are subterminally spotted with black. In 

 young females the throat is more or less spotted with white. 



This is much the largest of the Philippine button quails and appears 

 to be confined to the Island of Luzon. 



7. TURNIX WHITEHEADI Grant. 

 WHITEHEAD'S BUTTON QUAIL. 



Turnix ichitchcadl GRANT, Hand-Book Game Bds. (1896), 2, 276; WIIITK 

 HEAD, Ibis (1899), 5, 493; SHARPE, Hand-List. (1899), 1, 48; MC- 

 GREGOR, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4, 7, pi. 1, fig. 2; McGRK<;oK 

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



Luzon (Whitehead, Mc(jregor). 



Adult male. General color above black, finely vermiculated with gray 

 and dull reddish brown or with dull chestnut; crown mostly black with 

 dull chestnut tips to the feathers; a distinct median line of buff from 

 bill to neck ; many feathers on back edged with buff or whitish buff ; fore- 

 head and whole side of face pale buff, most of the feathers black tipped ; 



