STRIPED TURN IX. 
393 
Discovered by Sonnerat in the Isle of Lujfon, 
one of the Philippines : it is rather less than the 
common Quail, and is about seven inches in 
length : the top of the head, the cheeks, and the 
nape, are covered with black and white spots, the 
former being most numerous : the feathers of the 
throat are white, tipped with black : the under 
part of the neck and the breast are fine bright 
red : the belly is of a bright yellowish : the sides, 
the thighs, and the abdomen, are the same : the 
back, the rump, and the feathers covering the 
tail, are grey-brown, marked with delicate zigzag 
black lines : the greater and lesser wing-coverts 
are wliitish yellow, varied with black spots, with a 
bright red transverse stripe above each of the 
latter: the greater feathers of the wings are grey- 
brown, and spotless, and the tail is very short : 
the beak and feet are grey. 
STRIPED TURNIX. 
(Turnix fasciatus.) 
Tu. vertice nigro, cervice rufo, corpore supra Jusco-nigro macu- 
lato, sublus ri^Oj gula pectoreque alho nigroque transversim 
Jasciatis. 
Turnix with the crown black j the nape of the neck rufous; the 
body above brown, spotted with black ; beneath rufous ; with 
the throat and breast transversely striped with white and 
black. 
Hemipodius fasciatus. Temm. Gall. Ind, p. y5J. 
Turnix raye. Temm. Pig. el Gall. 3. p, 634. 
