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FIGHTING TURNIX. 
(Turnix Pugnax.) 
I'u. gutlure nigro, superciliis temporihusque alho et nigro-piinc^ 
tatis, corpore supra rufescente, nigro et albo variegato, subtus 
albo et nigro transverso lineato. 
Turnix with the throat black 3 the eyebrows and temples spotted 
with black and white ; the body above reddish, variegated 
with black and white 3 beneath white, transversely striped 
with black. 
Hemipodius pugnax. Temm. Gall, Ind. p. 754. 
Turnix combattant. Temm, Pig. et Gall. 3 . p. 6 l 2 . 
A SINGULAR and hitherto undescribed species,, 
except by Temminck, who records it nearly as 
follows. Its total length is about five inches and 
a half or six inches : the top of the head is of a 
dusky brown, tinged with red : its eyebrows, space 
between the beak and eyes, the cheeks, and mark 
behind the eyes, are white, varied with black spots : 
the throat is deep black : the nape is reddish : the 
back, the rump, the coverts which hide the tail, 
and the scapulars, are brown, varied with red, and 
marked near the tip of each feather with several 
transverse undulated bands of deep black : some 
of the scapulars are irregularly spotted with black, 
and the whole are longitudinally edged with white : 
the sides and fore-part of the neck, the breast, the 
upper part of the belly, and the wing-coverts, are 
equally striped with broad black and white bands. 
