TURNICID.E TURNIX 237 



B. Scapulars margined with golden-buff. 



a. Throat white, breast thickly spotted with 



blue T. hottentotta $ , p. 237. 



b. Throat and breast rufous, spots not very 



numerous T. hottentotta , p. 237. 



c. Throat white, no spots, sides of the breast 



barred T. nana, p. 240. 



FIG. 73. Left foot of Turnix lepurana. 



667. Turnix hottentotta. Hottentot Hemipode. 



Hemipodius hottentottus, Temm. Pig. et Gall, iii, pp. 636, 757 (1815). 



Turnix hottentottus, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 276 (1867) ; id. Ibis, 1869, 

 p. 375 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 607 (1884) ; Grant, Ibis, 

 1889, p. 464 ; id. Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 542 (1893) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, 

 p. 178 (1896) ; Grant, Game Bds. ii,- p. 275 (1897) ; Eeichenoiv , Vog. 

 Afr. i, p. 303 (1900). 



" Sand Quail" of English, " Reit Quartel " of Dutch Colonists. 



Description. Adult Male. General colour above, dark rufous ; 

 most of the feathers barred with black and edged with white, giving 

 a general mottled appearance ; scapulars conspicuously margined 

 with golden-buff; wing-quills blackish-brown, the outer primary 

 strongly margined with white ; lores, space round the eye and 

 cheeks mottled buff and white, chin and throat white ; rest of the 

 under parts also white, covered with semicircular black spots, most 

 numerous on the chest ; a slight wash of pale buff on the chest as 

 well ; tail elongated and pointed. 



Length 60 ; wing 2-90 ; tail 1-40 ; culmen -40 ; tarsus -90. 



In the female the chin, throat and chest are rusty-rufous and 

 the abdomen and under tail-coverts white, the spots are very much 

 fewer in number, in one specimen being almost absent. Wing 3*2. 



Distribution. This bird is apparently confined to the southern 

 portion of the Cape Colony ; it does not seem to reach Natal, nor 

 has it hitherto been met with north of the Orange River. 



