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chin,, upper throat, and abdomen white ; breast dark buff ; a few black spots 

 on sides of breast; a few feathers on sides, under wings, dull chestnut; 

 quills brown with light edges; long alula-quill edged with white; coverts 

 largely ochraceous-buff or dull chestnut and more or less marked with 

 large black spots; long scapulars broadly edged with ochraceous-buff or 

 pale yellow-buff. Iris white ; upper mandible .dark horn ; lower mandible 

 dull blue; legs and nails flesh-colored. Length, about 1*20.; wing, 56.5 

 to 01; tail, 10.5 to 28; culmen, 9 to 10; tarsus, 16.5 to 18. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having median crown- 

 line and sides of face pale straw or whitish; a narrow collar of dull 

 chestnut; above generally darker and marked with a greater amount of 

 dull chestnut. Wing, 60 to 64; tail, 18 to 22; culmen, 9.5 to 11.5; 

 tarsus, 17 to 18. 



Young. Immature birds are similar to adults but have the breast 

 white, streaked with dark brown; upper parts more uniformly and less 

 richly colored. 



Eggs. White with numerous, obscure, lilac markings; around the 

 larger end a band of dark sienna; larger end covered to middle of egg 

 with a wash of dark brown; edge of this color-area well-defined and 

 slightly irregular; smaller end of egg with a few small specks and a 

 faint brown wash. Two eggs measure respectively 20 by 16 and 20 by 

 16.5. Another egg, measuring 20.6 by 16.2, is white, speckled with brown 

 and has nearly one-half the surface, at the larger end, covered with dark 

 vandyke-brown. Eggs are deposited in August so far as known. 



The only known specimens of Whitehead's button quail were purchased 

 in the Quinta Market, Manila. It is said that they are trapped in the 

 vicinity of Parafiaque, some 7 kilometers from Manila. 



8. TURNIX SULUENSIS Mearns. 

 SULU BUTTON QUAIL. 



Turnix suluensis ME^RNS, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. (1905), 18, 83; MCGREGOR 

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



Sulu (Mearns). 



"Adult female (type and only specimen}. General color of upper parts 

 walnut-brown, the feathers finely banded and vermiculated with gray and 

 black; top. of head clove-brown, the feathers almost imperceptibly edged 

 with gray, divided by a median stripe of isabella-color extending from the 

 base of the bill to the occiput ; sides of head and neck buffy white speckled 

 with clove-brown ; nape walnut-brown, the feathers edged with gray ; 

 mantle walnut-brown, the feathers edged with gray, and vermiculated 

 with black, gray, and traces of very pale cinnamon; lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts clove-brown, the feathers narrowly edged with gray 

 on the back and upper rump, more broadly with cinnamon on the lower 



