THREE-BANDED SAND-GROUSE. 225 



ht; the bill is small, slender, and compressed; 

 the gonys, straight. 



Total length, 10 inches; bill, from the gape, ^ ; 

 wings, 61%, reaching to the tip of the tail; tail, from 

 the base, 3^ ; tarsus, 1 ^ ; hind-toe almost obsolete, 

 measuring, with the claw, only T 2 . 



WHITE-SPOTTED TURNIX. 



Hemipodius nivosus^ SWAINS. 



Above varied with ferruginous ; chin whitish ; throat and 

 breast pale ferrugineous, with white shining roundish spots ; 

 body and outer half of the wing-covers white ; rump and 

 upper tail-covers rufous and unspotted. 



H. nivosus, Swains. Phil. Mag. vol. Ix. p. 353 H. nivosus, 



Zool. lllust., 1st series, iii. pi. 163 Turnix Meiffren ? PI. 



Col. pi. 60. 1. 



WE have already given such a minute account of 

 this elegant little bird in the journal above alluded 

 to, that it is only necessary to repeat its specific cha- 

 racter, and to incorporate it in this work as a native 

 of Senegal. Whether it is the Turnix Meiffren of 

 Temminck, as some suppose, is very doubtful, for 

 an inspection of the two figures will show how much 

 they differ. Yet, if that of M. Temminck is really 

 intended for our nivosus, his name must sink as a 

 synonyme, for our description appeared more than 



