TUBNICID^ TURNIX 237 



B. Scapulars margined with golden-buff. 



a. Throat white, breast thickly spotted with 



blue T. hoUentotta j?,p. 237. 



6. Throat and breast rufous, spots not very 



numerous T. hoUentotta ? , p. 237. 



c. Throat white, no spots, sides of the breast 



barred T. nana, p. 240. 



Pig. 73. — Left foot of Turnix lepurana. x ■}■ 



667. Turnix hottentotta. Hottentot Hemipode. 



Hemipodius hottentottus, Temm. Pig. et Gall, iii, pp. 636, 757 (1815). 



Turnix hottentottus, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 276 (1867) ; id. Ihis, 1869, 

 p. 875 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 607 (1884) ; Grant, Ibis, 

 1889, p. 464 ; id. Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 542 (1893) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, 

 p. 178 (1896) ; Grant, Game Bds. ii, p. 275 (1897) ; Eeichenow, Vog. 

 Afr. i, p. 303 (1900). 



" Sand Quail" of English, " Eeit Quartel " of Dutch Colonists. 



Description. Adtdt Male. — General colour above, dark rufous ; 

 most of the feathers barred with black and edged with white, giving 

 a general mottled appearance ; scapulars conspicuously margined 

 with golden-buff; wing-quills blackish-brown, the outer primary 

 strongly margined with white ; lores, space round the eye and 

 cheeks mottled buff and white, chin and throat white ; rest of the 

 under parts also white, covered with semicircular black spots, most 

 numerous on the chest ; a slight wash of pale buff on the chest as 

 well ; tail elongated and ppinted. 



Length 60 ; wing 2-90 ; tail 1*40 ; culmen -40 ; tarsus -90. 



In the female the chin, throat and chest are rusty-rufous and 

 the abdomen and under tail-coverts white, the spots are very much 

 fewer in number, in one specimen being almost absent. Wing 3-2. 



Distribution. — This bird is apparently confined to the southern 

 portion of the Cape Colony ; it does not seem to reach Natal, nor 

 has it hitherto been met with north of the Orange Eiver. 



