l6o GAME BIRDS OF INDIA AND ASIA. 



of the latter. Male and female are alike in cclour, 

 and the former is in this species not very much the 

 smaller. The bill is blue-grey and the feet fleshy 

 white. At times I have seen birds of this species 

 in the Calcutta market with blue-grey legs, but in 

 the case of such specimens the characteristic points 

 given above will afford a means of distinction from 

 the blue-legged Button-quail. The hen is five and- 

 a-half inches long, with a wing of nearly three inches. 

 This bird inhabits most of India and Burma, 

 but not Ceylon, nor does it seem to occur south of 

 Mysore, nor does it range high up the hills. It ex- 

 tends eastward to Hainan and Formosa. Its breed- 

 ing season is from April to October, and the eggs, 

 laid in a hollow lined with grass, may sometimes be 

 as many as six. They are stone-coloured with a 

 fine brownish speckling and larger spots of darker 

 brown, and measure about four-fifths of an inch 

 in length. 



Philippine Button-Quail. 



Turnix fasciata, Brit. Mus. Cat., Birds, Vol. XXII p 



535- 



This is very like the Blue-legged Button-quail (T. pugnax) 

 of India, but has yellow legs and biU, and females are darker 

 with a very clear chestnut collar. It is found in the Philippines 

 and Palawan. 



Celebean Button-Quail. 



Turnix rufilatus, Brit. Mus. Cat., Birds, Vol. XXII p 

 536. 



This Celebean species also combines yellow legs and bill with 

 a plumage generally similar to that of the Indian Blue-legged 

 species, but the cock has the light barring on the chest white, 

 not buff, and the hen has the throat barred black and white' 

 not all black. ' 



