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rump and upper tail-coverts; tail grayish drab, the feathers perceptibly 

 cross-banded with wavy lines of dusky, edged with cinnamon on outer 

 webs, with middle pair of feathers extending 7 mm. beyond the next 

 pair; scapulars and numerals conspicuously edged externally with golden 

 buff and cinnamon; primaries grayish drab, the two outer ones edged 

 externally with wood-brown; secondaries darker drab, edged with cin- 

 namon on the outer web; greater wing-coverts cinnamon, drab at base, 

 with a subterminal black spot on the outer web; lesser wing-coverts 

 cinnamon-rufous, edged with buff, with a subterminal black ocellus : 

 chin, upper throat, and malar region, whitish, the last speckled witli 

 blackish brown; lower neck and upper breast clay-color, bordered by a 

 chain of oval black spots, the largest 3 mm. in length; lower breast and 

 middle of belly whitish ; sides of lower neck, and sides of chest and breast, 

 chestnut mixed with black and clay-color; flanks light clay-color; under 

 , tail-coverts darker clay-color; lining of wings pale clay-color and pale 

 grayish drab. Length of skin, 120; wing, 68; tail, 31; culmen, 11.5; 

 depth of bill at angle of gonys, 3.8; tarsus, 19.5." (Mearns.) 



9. TURNIX CELE8TINOI McGregor. 

 CELESTINO'S BUTTON QUAIL. 



Turnix celestinoi MCGREGOR, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 292, 317. 

 Bohol (McGregor). 



Adult male (type and only specimen). Ground-color of upper parts 

 black ; feathers of head narrowly edged with dull buff, paler on forehead ; 

 a narrow median line of pale buff from forehead to nape; hind neck, 

 mantle, rump, and tail-coverts with wavy, broken, cross-lines of dark 

 rusty buff, obsolete on neck; lores and side of head light buff with small 

 black tips to feathers; a patch on each side of neck pale vinaceous-buff 

 with narrow black cross-lines; chin and throat white, each feather with 

 narrow buff tips, middle of abdomen white; rest of lower parts rusty 

 buff or clay-color, a trifle lighter than in T. worcesteri; each feather on 

 sides of breast marked with a wide black bar; primaries, secondaries, 

 primary-coverts, and alula drab-gray; first primary and first feather of 

 alula edged exteriorly with ocherous-buff ; secondary-coverts and inner 

 secondaries with wide edges of ocherous-buff preceded by large black spots 

 or bars; wing-lining and axillars drab-gray; tail bluish slate and hidden 

 by the long coverts. Length, 130 ; wing, 6 5. -5 ; tail, 18.1 ; exposed culmen, 

 11.5; depth of bill at angle of gonys, 4; tarsus, 20; middle toe with 

 claw, 18.5. 



The only specimen known was taken on a grassy hill near the town 

 of Guindulman, in Bohol, J.une 22, 1906. It is closely related to T. 

 suluensis. 



