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SPOTTED TURN IX. 
Rather above five inches in length : tlie whole 
of the fore-part of the neck, the sides of the head 
and of the breast, are transversely striped with 
black and white : the belly and the abdomen are 
of a spotless red : the top of the head is black : 
the region of the eyes is striped alternately with 
white and black : the nape is of a bright red : the 
back and the rump are browm, varied with black 
and red : the wing-coverts are transversely striped 
with black and w'hite ; the feathers nearest the 
body have their outer webs black, tipped with 
grey : the quills are grey : the feet and beak arc 
yellowish. 
One specimen only is known, which is described 
by Temminck from the rich collection of the Pa- 
risian Museum. 
SPOTTED TURN IX. 
(Turnix maculosus.) 
Tu. corpore supra rufo^ macidis nigris, spadiceis, albis et pluin- 
beis variis, subtus rvfescenie , tcenid longiludinali athd in ver- 
tice, superciliis rujis. 
Turnix with the body above rufous, varied with spots of black, 
chesnut, white, and lead-colour j beneath reddish ; the crown 
with a longitudinal white band 5 the eyebrows red. 
Heinipodius maculosus. Temm. Gall. Ind.p. 757. 
Turnix Mouchete. Tcmm. Pig. ct Gall. 3 . p. t) 31 . 
