336 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



T. joudera is an allied species inhabiting India. It merely differs from 

 the present in being smaller, sex for sex ; the plumage of both is identical. 

 The female T. joudera would appear to be very much the same size as the 

 male T. maculosa and consequently unsexed birds of the two species could 

 not be separated from each other with certainty. I have not been able to 

 examine a large series of the Indian race, and I follow Mr. Hume in keep- 

 ing it distinct. 



Blanford's Button- Quail occurs throughout the whole Province, and is a 

 constant resident. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay procured it in Karennee. 



It is found throughout China, extending into Eastern Siberia, and will 

 probably be met with in Independent Burmah and also in Siam ; for Dr. 

 Tiraud records it from Cochin China. 



This Quail is almost invariably found about gardens in the jungle, singly 

 or in pairs. I have shot it also in bamboo-jungle where there was an 

 undergrowth of grass. It is less common on the hills than in the plains. 

 On the whole this is perhaps the most abundant and universally distributed 

 of all the Quails of Burmah ; but nowhere will enough be found together to 

 furnish sport. It is hard to flush, flies only a few yards, and can never 

 again be discovered. I have not been able to find its nest. 



690. TURNIX DUSSUMIEKI. 

 THE LITTLE BUTTON-QUAIL. 



Hemipodius dussuxnieri, Temm. PI. Col. 454. fig. 2. Heixripodius sykesii, 



Smith, 111. S. Afr. Zool., Aves, sub tab. xvi. Turnix sykesii, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 

 p. 600. Turnix dussumieri, El. Ibis, 1867, p. 161 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, 

 p. 556 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 397 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. Ill ; Hume 8f 

 Marsh. Game Birds, ii. p. 193, pi. ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 237. 



Description. Female. Upper plumage mingled rufous, yellow and black, 

 the first two preponderating and the yellow disposed in broad streaks ; 

 hind neck and upper back almost entirely rufous, forming a sort of broad 

 collar ; a narrow coronal streak yellowish ; sides of the head yellow barred 

 with black; chin and throat white; centre of the breast plain rufous; 

 sides of the neck and breast streaked and spotted with black and broadly 

 streaked with rufous ; remainder of lower plumage pale buff. 



In the male, according to Mr. Hume, there is scarcely any rufous in the 

 plumage. I have examined a large series of this Quail, the specimens all 

 unsexed it is true ; but I could not discover any difference of coloration to 



