686 Birds of Celebes: Tumicidae. 



Turnix can always be distinguished from the Quails and other Gallinaceous 

 birds and from the Rails by the absence of the hind toe. From the three-toed 

 Limicolae it differs by its general Quail-like appearance, Gallinaceous bill, and 

 short blunt wing. 



FAMILY TURNICIDAE. 



The Tumicidae differ from Pedionomiis by the characters mentioned above. 



GENUS TURNIX Bonnat. 



Plumage variegated; tail short, once to twice the length of the tarsus; 

 tarsus scutellated in front and behind ; hallux absent ; wing rounded , first quill 

 reaching to the tip, inner secondaries almost equally long. Sexes dissimilar, 

 the female handsomer and pugnacious, the male weaker and plainer, brooding 

 on the eggs. 



+ * 292. TURNIX RUFILATUS Wall. 

 Celebes Bustard-quail. 



a. Turnix fasciatus (I) Gld. (nee Temm.), B. Asia VII, pi. 11 (1861). 



Turnix rufilatus (1) Wallace, P. Z. S. 1865, 480; (2j Walden, Tr. Z. S. 1872, Vin, 87; 

 (3) Platen, Gefied. Welt 1887, 206, 230; (4) Grant, Ibis 1889, 447, 460; (5) id., 

 Cat. B. XXn, 1893, 536; (6) Blittik., Weber's Eeise in Ost-Ind. 1893, m, 281; 

 (7) Hart, Nov. Zool. 1896, 164, 576; (8) id., ib. 1897, 166. 



b. Turnix rufilata (1) Gray, HL. 11, 1870, 270, Nr. 9737. 



c. Turnix rafllateralis (1) Rosenb., Malay. Arcliip. 1878, 276. 

 Figure and descriptions. Gould a J; Wallace i; Grant 5. 



Adult female. "General tone above warm brown, greyish on the mantle, and inclining to 

 rufous on the rump, each feather vermiculated with black, and some in the middle 

 of the back and scapulars with a subterminal black blotch. Feathers of the top of 

 the head black, margined with rusty brown; lores black; superciliary stripe and sides 

 of the head white and black. Chin, throat, chest, and breast white barred with black ; 

 middle of belly whitish buff, sides of belly, flanks, and under tail-coverts rusty buff. 

 Wings and wing-coverts as in T. taigoor [blackish brown — the wing-coverts rufous 

 or brown on the inner web and buff on the outer, and barred with black], but the 

 outer primary only is edged with whitish buff: — bill and feet pale greenish yellow; 

 [claws pale, Wallace 1]. — Wing 91 mm; tail 33; tar.sus 28" (Grant 5). 



"Iris whitish; feet ochreous, joints greenish; bill ochreous" — Doherty 8. 



Male. „The males are decidedly smaller than the females, the black borders to the tliroat- 

 feathers are veiy narrow, the chin almost pure white, the wing-coverts have more 

 white, the scapulars rather less, not more rust^colour" (Hartert 8). 



Distribution. Celebes: — Near Macassar (Wallace 7, 5, Weber 6, Everett 7); Indrulaman 

 near Bonthain (Ev. 7); Minahassa (Platen .3); West Celebes — Tawaya (Doherty S). 



In North Celebes this Hemipode has been recorded only by Dr. Platen; 

 in the South of the Island Macassar and Indrulaman are the only localities yet 



