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the Duke-of-York group *, in which latter locality it was met with by 

 Mr. Layard, Jim. ( Ibis,' 1880, p. 302). It is, I believe, the only species 

 of the Turnicidae yet known as inhabiting the Papuan Islands, eleven 

 altogether of that group being found in the Australian region. Of these 

 the following is a complete list. Of all of them, except T. scintillans, I 

 have seen skins in the collections of the British Museum. 



1. TURNIX MELANOGASTER. 



Turnix melanogaster, Gould, B. A. v. pi. Ixxxi.; Handb. ii. p. 178. 

 Eastern Australia (Gould). 



2. TURNIX YARIA (Lath.). 



Turnix varia (Lath.), Gould, B. A. v. pi. Ixxxii. ; Handb. ii. p. 179. 

 New South Wales, Victoria, S. Australia, and (?) W. Australia 

 (Gould)-, Eockingham Bay &c. (Ramsay). 



3. TURNIX SCINTILLA.NS. Ibis, 1882, 

 Turnix scintillans, Gould, B. A. v. pi. Ixxxiii. ; Handb. ii. p. 181. 



Abrolhos Islands, "W. Australia (Gould). 



4. TURNIX MELANOXOTA. 



Turnix melanotus, Gould, B. A. v. pi. Ixxxiv. ; Handb. ii. p. 182. 



Moreton Bay (Gould)-, Cape York (H.M.S. l Challenger'); Lizard 

 Island (Jukes in B.M.) ; Wide Bay, Bichmond and Clarence Kiver 

 districts, N. S. Wales, and interior (Ramsay). 



5. TURNIX SATURATA, mini. 



New Britain (Layard, Kleinschmidt) ; Duke-of-York group (Layard). 



6. TURNIX RUFESCENS. 



Turnix rufescens, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 497. 



Samao Island, Timor (Wall). 



This species I only know from a single specimen obtained by Mr. 

 Wallace, and therefore probably the type of his description (s. c.), in the 

 British Museum. This skin is in poor condition ; but the species, 

 though near to T. melanonota, is apparently a good one, distinguishable 

 by the scapularies having no edging of creamy buff, as in the last-named 

 bird. A further series of specimens will be necessary to decide the 

 question. Mr. Wallace describes the irides as being brown, whilst in 

 Jukes's specimen of T. melanonota from Lizard Island they are called 

 " white," as also they are in Layard's skin of T. saturata from New 



* It remains to be seen what species it is which, according to Mr. Ramsay (apud 

 Sahadori, " Prodromus," Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xviii. p. 9), occurs near Port Moresby. 





