450 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



[This is a very rare bird in Tenasserim. I have never actually 

 shot or seen it at large in the forests ; the only specimens I 

 got I trapped. I found that one specimen I examined had eaten 

 insects and seeds. — W. D.] 



Th e following are the dimensions and colors of the soft parts 

 of a female : — 



Length, 10*75 ; expanse, 17*5 ; tail from vent, 2*25 ; wing, 

 5*5 ; tarsus, 1*62 ; bill from gape, 0*9 ; weight 8 ozs. 



Legs and feet pale dirty green ; bill black ; irides deep brown. 

 The sexes are alike. 



The chin, throat, lower part of sides of the neck and foreneck 

 rufescent white, slightly tipped and tiDged with orange fer- 

 ruginous ; the cheeks and ear-coverts, and a stripe above the 

 eye and above the ear -coverts pale orange ferruginous, much 

 paler than the crown, but more ferruginous than the chin 

 and throat ; a black streak from the posterior angle of the 

 eye over the ear-coverts involving the tips of the upper ones ; 

 forehead, crown, occiput and nape intensely deep, almost maroon 

 ferruginous ; basal portion of sides of neck, breast, abdomen, 

 and flanks bright orange ferruginous ; the feathers of the flanks 

 tipped whitish, and with larger or smaller subterminal central 

 circular or oval black spots ; the base of the neck behind, in- 

 terscapular region, sides of the breast, and sides of the body 

 under the wings, velvet black with narrow silvery white trans- 

 verse bars ; the rest of the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 velvet black, with bright orange subterminal, more or less spear- 

 head-shaped spots ; primaries and their greater coverts plain 

 grey brown ; secondaries similar, but margined on their outer 

 webs with a more or less rufescent olive ; the rest of the coverts, 

 scapulars and tertiaries pale olivaceous ; some of the outermost 

 feathers fringed rufescent, and all the coverts nearest the body, 

 scapulars, and tertiaries with terminal or subterminal round, 

 oval or corcliform, velvet black spots ; tail deep brown ; the 

 central feathers a little pencilled with orange or rufescent 

 zig-zag lines ; wing-lining greyish olivaceous towards the mar- 

 gins of the wing, pure white in the middle of the wing, and 

 the longer lower coverts, and the lower surface of the quills 

 pale glossy earth brown ; lower tail-coverts velvet black, 

 broadly tipped with pale rufescent. 



833.— Turnix plumbipes, Eodgs. (5). 



Tonghoo, Karennee % Earns.) Pabyouk ; Bankasoon. 



Sparingly distributed throughout the more open portions of 

 - the province, but not, I think, ascending the higher hills. 



[I have found this Quail rare in Tenasserim, meeting with 

 it occasionally in scrub jungle, or about clearings, in pairs or 



