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brown, light brown, and slaty-grey markings, the blotches becoming 

 larger on the thicker end. Length (A) 0-9 x 0-7 inch ; (B) 0-87 

 X 0-7, inch ; (C) 0-85 x 0-67 inch. 



A set in K. H. Bennett's Collection, taken on the 18th of 

 October 1886, at Mossgiel, are of a bluish-white ground colour, 

 minutely freckled all over, intermingled with markings of light 

 chestnut, chestnut-brown, and slaty-grey, the latter colour in one 

 or two places forming small clouded blotches. Length (A) 0'93 

 x 0-75 inch ; (B) 0-93 x 0-76 inch ; (C) 095 x 0-76 inch ; (D) 

 0-93 x 0-75 inch. 



A set taken by Mr. W. Liscombe in October 1883, has the 

 entire surface of the shell obscured by very faint confluent 

 markings of reddish-chestnut and slaty-grey. Length (A) 0-91 x 

 0-75 inch ; (B) 0'89 x 0-73 inch ; (C) 0-9 x 0-72 inch ; (D) 0-92 

 X 0-73 inch.. 



Sab. Derby, N.W. Australia, Wide Bay District, Richmond 

 and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, 

 Victoria and South Australia, West and Sou};h-West Australia. 



TURNIX PYRRHOTHORAX, Gould. 



Eed-cliested Turnix. 



Gould, Handhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 484, p. 186. 



The nidification of this bird is similar to that of the preceding 

 species. A nest found by Dr. Ramsay during 1864 at " Manar," 

 New South Wales, was merely a shallow grass-lined depression in 

 the earth, sheltered by a wind-bent tuft of grass. Eggs four in 

 number for a sitting, in form swollen ovals, of a dull white ground 

 colour, which is almost obscured by indistinct markings of 

 chestnut and slaty-brown; in some specimens the markings are 

 larger and more pronounced, even in the same set. Length (A) 

 1 X 0-79 inch; (B) 0;98 x 076 inch. 



