HOTTENTOT TUIINIX. 
r^9s 
rounded with white, which also ends the feathers: 
chin and throat barred black and dusky white : 
breast white, with a crescent of black on each 
feather, except down the middle, which is of a pale 
rust-colour ; and there is likewise a mixture of 
this last along with the black : belly, sides, and 
vent, paler, inclining to yellow : quills and tail 
dusky ; the last short, and striated with black and 
rufous brown, fringed with white : legs pale : toes 
only three in number, all placed forwards.” 
This bird inhabits the countries on the African 
coast of the Mediterranean, and occasionally visits 
the southern shores of Spain. 
HOTTENTOT TUIINIX. 
(Turnix Hottentottus.) 
Tu. vertice nigricante, rufo-macidato,gutturc albo, corpore stipra 
et subius albescente-ri^o, nigro-ritfo et albesccnte maculato, 
ventre imo abdomineque albescentihus. 
Turnix with the crown dusky, spotted with white 5 the throat 
white ; the body above and beneath whitish red, spotted with 
reddish black and whitish j the lower belly and abdomen 
whitish. 
Hemipodius Hottentotus. Temm. Gall. Ind. p. 757. 
Turnix Hottentot. Temm. Pig. ct Gall. 3 . 7;. 630 ’. 
