570 TINAMID^E. 



Bengal; affects chiefly large open grassy plains; occurs also in South 

 Travancore, and probably in Ceylon. 



1241- TurniX DuSSUmieri (Temm.), Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 161; 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 556; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 397; 

 Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 1 1 1 ; Hume and Marsh, Game Birds ii. p. 193, pi ; 

 Gates, Str, F. x. p. 237 ; id., B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 336. Hemipodius 

 Dussumieri, Temm., PL Co!. 454, fig. 2. Hemipodius Sykesi, Smith, III, S. 

 Afr. ZooL Aves. Sub. tab xvi. ; Murray, Ildbk,, Zool., 'c., Si'nd, p. 204 ; id., 

 Vert. Zool., Sind., p. 217. The LITTLE BUTTON QUAIL. 



Male. Head brown, barred with black, and with a central longitudinal 

 yellowish stripe ; supercilium pale white or yellowish white ; back and 

 scapulars chestnut brown, the feathers with fine dark transverse striae and 

 edged with yellowish white ; rump and upper tail coverts dark brown, closely 

 barred with black, the feathers with whitish edges ; throat white, with a few 

 dark spots on the sides ; breast pale ferruginous, the feathers on the sides 

 with dark spots or lunules ; abdomen whitish. 



Length. 5 to 5-5 inches ; wing 275 ; irides light yellow ; legs and feet pale 

 fleshy. 



Hab. Sind, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Oudh, Bengal, Rajputana, Kutch, 

 Guzerat, and the Concan during the monsoon, in grassy plains or cultivated 

 fields. In the Deccan it is very numerous and difficult to flush from the 

 fields of pulse which it affects. Said to breed in the Himalayas and N.-W. India. 



1242- TurniX maculosa (Temm.'}, Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 281 ; iii. 

 p. 179; Hume and Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 452 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. ill ; 

 Hume and Marsh., Game Birds ii. p. 183, pi. ; Bingham, Str. F. ix. p. 196; 

 Oates, Str. F. x. p. 236; id., B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 335 Hemipodius macu- 

 losus, Temm , Pig. et Gall. iii. p. 631. Turnix maculatus VieilL, Nouv. 

 Diet, a" Hist. Nat. xxxv. p. 47 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine p. 398. Turnix 

 Blanfordi, Blyth,J.A. S. B. xxxii. p. 80; Blyth and Wald., B. Burm. 

 p. 151. BLANFORD'S or the BURMO-MALAYAN BUTTON QUATL. 



Upper plumage rufous, black and yellow, the first two colours preponderating, 

 and the yellow disposed in oval drops not streaks ; wing coverts yellowish-buff, 

 with large black spots ; hind neck and upper back rufous, forming a broad 

 collar; crown of the head blackish with a pale rufous mesial line; sides of 

 the head buff, barred with black ; chin and throat buffy white ; breast, sides 

 of the body, vent, flanks and under tail coverts ferruginous ; sides of the 

 breast and sides of the body with large ovate or round spots of black. (Gates.) 

 Legs yellow ; upper mandible dark brown ; lower mandible and gape pale 

 brown, tinged with yellow ; irides white. 



Length, Male 6'$ inches; female 7; wing 3*62 ; tail 1*5 ; tarsus I ; bill 

 4 ape o - 75. 



