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THE NICOBAR BUTTON QUAIL. 



by some authors as a distinct genus, Areoturnix\ of the second 

 type (the Button Quails), T.joudera will serve as an example. 



Intermediate forms occur, and I think it sufficient to retain 

 the one generic name Turnix for the whole group. 



In addition to the species met with within our limits, we 

 have T. pugnax from Java, (doubtfully distinct from our 

 T. plumbipes^) T. ocellata, fasciata and nigrescens from the 

 Philippines, T. rufilata from Macassar, T. rostrata and blaki- 

 stoni (the latter doubtfully distinct from pugnax) from China. 

 Besides these, there are three or four species from Africa, one of 

 which, T. sylvatica, is found also in Spain and Southern France 

 and Sicily, single specimens having also been recorded from 

 England and Italy. 



Madagascar yields at least one species, Australia seven or 

 eight, and, in addition to those already referred to, two or three 

 others have been described from the islands lying between 

 Australia and South-East Asia, and doubtless many closely 

 affined species remain still to be discriminated from the islands 

 of the Archipelago. 



