SPOTTED TURNIX. 
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This bird is distinguished by its very short tail, 
which scarcely exceeds the tips of the wings when 
closed : its length is five inches : the top of the 
head is varied with black spots, and the whole of 
the feathers are tipped with greyish red : a white 
band extends over the crown : the eyebrows, the 
sides of the neck, and the nape, are bright red : 
the throat and the cheeks are reddish white : the 
fore-part of the neck, the breast, the belly, the 
sides, and the thighs, are red, and (with the ex- 
ception of the feathers of the sides and those of the 
edge of the breast, which are varied with stripes 
of black and reddish white,) they are spotless : 
the feathers of the top of the back and the sca- 
pulars are black in the centre, bordered with 
white, and tipped with red : those of the middle 
of the back, and the long ones which hide the tail, 
are deep black, varied with rufous undulations, 
and slightly edged with yellowish ; the scapulars 
are a trifie spotted with grey-blue : the wing- 
coverts are reddish yellow ; the whole of the 
feathers with a black spot near the tip, and the 
longer ones with the inner webs red, spotted with 
black : the quills and the secondary feathers are 
bright grey, edged with reddish white : the feet 
and the beak are fine yellow. 
Discovered during the last voyage of Baudin in 
New Holland. 
