GAME BIRDS OF INDIA AND ASIA. l6l 



Whitehead's Button-Quail. 



Tuynix whiteheadi. Grant, Game-Birds, Vol. II, p. 276. 



Only a few specimens of this little species, which is much like 

 the little white-legged Indian bird, have been obtained, near 

 Manilla ; it is distinguished from the above Indian species by- 

 having the prevailing colour of the upper parts blackish-grey, 

 not chestnut and buff. 



Chestnut-Breasted Button-Quail. 



Turnix ocellata, Brit. Mus. Cat, Birds, Vol. XXII, 

 p. 548. 



This bird, confined to Luzon, is about the size of the larger 

 Indian Button-Quails, and has yellow legs and bill ; it is drab, 

 mottled with black above, and has a plain chestnut breast and 

 buff abdomen ; the throat is white in the male, more or less 

 black in the hen. 



Sulu Button-Quail. 



Turnix suluensis, Mearns, Proc. Zool. Soc, Washing- 

 ton, Vol. XVIII, p. 83. 



A female, the type of this spepies, obtained on Sulu in the 

 Philippines, most resembled Whitehead's Buttoji-^juail, but was 

 larger, brown in general tint above instead of blackish. 



