GAME BIRDS OF IND ANDIA ASIA. 159 



The Nicobar Yellow-legged Button-Quail. 



Turnix albiventris, Blanford, Faun. Brit. 

 Ind., Birds, Vol. IV, p. 154. 



This is another local race of Turnix tanki, not 

 exceeding it in size, but more mottled with black 

 and reddish on the back in adults, and with the 

 female's collar of a darker chestnut. It is confined 

 to the Andamans and Nicobars, and rare in the 

 former group of islands. ' ' Species ' ' like this and 

 the last are really better distinguished by the Am- 

 erican system of ' ' trinomials " so as to stand as 

 TuYnix tanki bldnfordi, and T. tanki albiventris. 

 While it would hardly do to ignore them, I think it is 

 rather absurd to give them full specific rank 



The White-legged or Little Button-Quail. 



Turnix dussumieri. Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, 

 Vol. IV, p. 152. 



Native names : — Ghinwa Iowa, Chota lawa, 

 Ddbki, Tura, Chimnaj (in Muttra) ; Libbia 

 (in Purneah), Hindi ; Darwi, Ratnagiri ; 

 Chinna or Telia dahba gundlu, Telegu ; 

 San gundlu, Uriya. 



This species is at once distinguished from the 

 others by its smaller size and lighter colour, besides 

 its funny little pointed taU, which is long enough 

 to be noticeable, while those of our other Button- 

 quails are not so any more tha.n are those of the 

 typical quails. Above it is mostly chestnut mixed 

 with cream-colour, and nearly white below, running 

 into buff on the breast, with black spots on the sides 



