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1382. Turnix pugnax. The Bustard-Quail. 



Ilemipodius pugnax, Temm. Pig. et Gall, iii, pp. 612, 754 (1815). 

 Hemipodius pugnax et taigoor, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 155. 

 Hemipodius plumbipes, Hodgs. Beng. Sport. Mag., May 1837, p. 346. 

 Hemipodius atrogularis, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 107. 

 Turnix ocellatus, apud Blyth, Cat. p. 255; Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 507 ; 



Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xliii, pt. 2, p. 174 (nee Scop.). 

 Turnix taigoor, Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 595 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xli, 



pt. 2, p. 250 ; Butler, S. F. iv, p. 7 ; v, p. 231 ; ix, p. 424 ; Ball, 



S. F. vii, p. 226; Hume $ Marsh. Game B. ii, p. 169, pi.; 



Hume, Cat. no. 832 ; Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 761 ; Vidal, S. F. ix 



B. M. XXll, p. 



Munn, Ibis, 1894, p. 74 (with figure of chick). 

 Turnix puguax, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 161 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxix, 



pt. 2, p. 333; Hume $ Gates, S. F. iii, p. 178; Hume, N. $ E. 



p. 553; Oyilvie Grant, Ibis, 1889, p. 458; id. (T. taigooris 



subsp.) Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 534. 

 Turnix plumbipes, Blyth fy Wold. Birds Burm. p. 152; Hume fy 



Dav. S. F. vi, pp. 450, 521 ; Hume, Cat. no. 833 ; Scully, S. F. 



viii, p. 350 ; Gammie, ibid. p. 453 ; Hume fy Marsh. Game B. ii, 



p. 177, pi. : Oates, B. B. ii, p. 337 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 310. 



Gulu, Gundlu, Salui-gundru, H. ; Koladu <J , Pured 2 , Tel. ; Ankddeh J , 

 Kurung Kadeh $ , Tarn. ; Dune a, liatnagiri : Kdre-haki, Can. (Mysore); 

 Timok, Lepcha ; Ngon, Burm. 



Fig. 31. Head of T. pvgnax, $ . ^ 



Coloration. Male. Greneral colour of upper parts brown, varying 

 from bright chestnufc to dark greyish ; a more or less distinct pale 

 stripe down the middle of the crown ; supercilia, lores, and sides 

 of head whitish, more or less speckled with black; feathers of 

 crown black with brown or rufous edges, many of the dorsal 

 feathers irregularly banded black and rufous and more or less 

 edged on each side with white or whitish, generally having a black 

 inner border, so as to form longitudinal bands or spots that are 

 excessively variable ; wing-coverts in part broadly barred black 

 and buffy white ; quills dark brown ; outer webs of primaries with 

 buffy- white borders, outer webs of secondaries with rufous or buff 

 indentations ; chin and throat whitish ; breast barred black and 

 buff; rest of lower parts brownish buff. In immature birds the 

 black bars on the breast are represented by broad subterminal spots 

 on the feathers. 



Female. The chin, throat, and a variable area in the middle of 



