12. THE NICOBAR BUTTON-QUAIL. 



Turnix albiventris, HUME. 



No bars across the breast. 

 Tail-feathers plain, not margined, the 



middle pair neither lengthened nor 



pointed. 

 With a considerable amount of bright 



rufous on the upper plumage. 

 Wing of male about 3 ; of female about 



Si- 

 Inhabits the Andaman and Nicobar 

 Islands. 



MALE : Without a rufous collar. 

 FEMALE : With a rufous collar. 



VERNACULAR NAME: Mool, Nicobarese. 



THE Nicobar Button-Quail occurs in the 

 Nicobar Islands, where it was observed 

 by Mr. Hume's party in the islands of 

 Bompoka, Camorta and Tiressa; and in 

 the Andaman Islands, where specimens 

 were obtained at Port Blair and at Port 

 Mouat in the South Andaman. 



Mr. Hume observes that this Quail " is 

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