HOTTENTOT TURNIX. 
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Tins species, Avhicli is not only the smallest of 
the present genus, but of the gallinaceous birds, 
is about the size of a Lark, and measures five 
inches in length : the top of the head is black, 
each feather being tipped with rufous ; a small 
dash passes over the crown to the nape : the eye- 
brows are rufous : the throat is white, each feather 
tipped with bright red, which colour is expanded 
over the cheeks : the sides and fore-part of the 
neck, the breast, and lateral parts of the body, 
are reddish white, with a broad but short band of 
deep black towards the tip, which latter is yel- 
lowish white : the middle of the belly and the 
abdomen are of a whitish yellow, spotted with 
brown : the nape is grey, varied with deeper grey : 
the back, the scapulars, and the rump, are striped 
and waved with spots and lines of deep red and 
black : the scapulars are edged with a broad white 
band, which is accompanied interiorly with one 
of deep black : the wing-coverts are varied with 
red, white, and black ; the red occupying the 
inner, and the black and white the outer webs : 
the quills and secondaries are bright brown, tipped 
and fringed with yellowish white : the feathers of 
the tail are varied with waved black and red 
stripes, and large white spots : the beak is brown, 
and the feet are yellow. 
This species is one of the numerous discoveries 
of that indefatigable naturalist Le Vaillant, who 
communicated the following circumstance rela- 
tive to its history to Temminck. “ This bird is 
