JOURNAL 



OF THE 



Bombay Natural History Society. 



May 1915. , Vol. XXIII. No. 4. 



THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. 



BY 



E. C. Stuart Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



Part XVII. 



With Plate XVIT, 



TURNIX TANKI TANKI. 



The Indian Button Quail, 



Turnix tanki. — (Bnch. Ham.) Blyth, J. A. S. B., xii, p. 180 

 (1843) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis (1889), p. 466 ; Oates, in Hiime's Nests 

 and Eggs, 2nd ed. iii., p. 370; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. M., xxii, 

 p. 544; Blanford, Avifauna, B. I., iv, p. 163; Oates, Game Birds 

 of India, i, p. 63 ; Sharpe, Hand-List i, p. 49 ; Oates, Cat. Eggs, 

 B. M., i, p. 72; Le Mess, Game, S. and W. B. of Ind., p. 115; 

 Oglivie-Grant, Game B., ii, p. 278; Seth Smith, J. B. N. H. S., 

 xvii, p. 238; Whitehead, ibid, xx, p. 969; Moss King, ibid, xxi, 

 p. 101 ; A. E. Osmaston, ibid, xxii, p. 644. 



Hemipodius joudera. — Hodg., in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 85; E. A. 

 Butler, B. of Sind, etc., p. 56. 



Turnix dussttmieri. — Blyth, Cat., p. 266 ; Jerdon, B. of Ind., iii, 

 p. 599; Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. B., xliii, pt. ii, p. 174. 



Turnix joudera. — Gray, Cat. M. and B. Nepal, p. 129(1846); 

 Ball, Str. Feath., iv., p. 236 ; Butler, ibid, p. 8 ; Hume, ibid, p. 225 ; 

 Butler, ibid, v., p. 231 ; Ball, ibid, vii, p. 226; Butler, Cat. B. of 

 Sind, p. 56; Hume and Marsh., Game B,, ii, p. 187; Butler, Cat. B. 

 of S. Bomb., p. 70; Reid, Str. Feath., x, p. 64; Davidson, ibid, 

 p. 318; Davison, ibid, p. 412; Macgregor, ibid, p. 441; Terry, ibid, 

 p. 479; Taylor, ibid, p. 479; Barnes, B. of Bomb., p. 318, id, J. B. 

 N. H. S., vi., pt. i. 

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