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Genus ODONTOPHORUS, Vieiil. 

 Odontophorus marmoratus (Gould). 



Odontophorus marmoratus, Scl $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 545 ; Grant, 

 Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 433 (1893) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 47 

 (1899). 



The eggs of the Marbled Partridge are regular ovals. They are 

 white with a considerable amount of gloss. The two specimens in 

 the Collection measure respectively: 1*47 by 1-08; 1*5 by 1-1. 



2. liemedios, Antioquia, U.S. Colombia Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(7'. K. Salmon). 



Order HEMIPODIL 

 Family TUENICID^E. 



The eggs of the Hemipodes are either pyriform or of a broad 

 oval shape, and they are rather glossy. They are double-spotted, 

 but the surface-markings are frequently so dense that the shell- 

 markings are obliterated. 



Genus TURNIX, Bonn. 

 Turnix pugnax (Temm.). 



Perdix pugnax, Thien. Fortpflanz. yes. Voy. p. 36, tab. viii. fig. 5 



(1845-54). 



Turuix ocellatus, Layard, Ann. 8f May. Nat. Hist. (2) xiv. p. 107 (1854). 

 Turnix taigoor, Hume fy Marsh. Game Birds 2nd. ii. p. 169 (1879; ; 



Oates ed. Hume, Nests $ Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 367 (1890) ; Barnes, 



Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vi. pi. i. fig. 832 (1891) ; Grant, Cat. 



Birds B. M. xxii. p. 530 (1893). 

 Turnix plumbipes, Hume $ Marsh, torn. cit. p. 177. 

 Turnix pugnax, Oates, Game Birds Ind. i. p. 57 (1898) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. 



i. p. 48 (1899). 



Mr. Hume thus describes the eggs of the Bustard-Quail : 

 " The ground-colour is greyish white, very thickly and minutely 

 speckled all over with what, on close examination, proves to be 

 a mixture of minute dots of yellowish and reddish brown and 

 pale purple. Some eggs have absolutely no markings except this 

 minute dotting or stipling, but the majority have spots and blotches 

 more or less thinly speckled over the surface (often only at the 

 large end, always most thickly there) of intense reddish or blackish 

 brown or even bluish black. The minute dottings in many eggs, 

 everywhere dense, are most so at the large end, where, with the 

 blotches, they occasionally form an irregular imperfect and ill- 

 marked mottled or smudgy cap or zone." Specimens vary in shape 

 from broad oval to pyriform, and measure from '8 to 1*04 in length, 

 and from -71 to -85 in breadth. 



