TETRAONIDiE. 



80.5 



and grey : the breast is of a pale reddish -ash colour : 

 beyond this, to the vent, black, marked with pale 

 spots : the bastard wing is undulated with black, and 

 marked with large brownish blood-coloured spots at 

 the tips of the feathers : the prime wing-coverts and 

 second quills are rusty- white, marked with a broadish 

 trace of black, parallel to the shaft, quite to the tip : 

 prime quills brown, pointed ; the outer edges of them 

 hoary towards the base ; within white to the tip, 

 least conspicuous on the outer ones : the legs fea- 

 thered almost to the nads, and are very short: the 

 toes very short, and all joined together except at the 

 tip, where the claws divide : the sole imbricated with 

 hairy papillae. 



GENUS CCCIIL— ORTYGIS, Illiger. TURNIX. 

 Generic character: vide Steph. i\ xi. p. 387. — Turnix. 

 Or. nivosus. 



Or. supra ferrugineo varius, mento alhescente; jugulo pecloreque 

 pallide Jerrvgineis^ maculis albis, nitidis, ornatis, corpore alho, 

 uropygio caudceque tectricihus superioribus riijis, immacidatis. 



Turnix varied above with rust- colour, with the chin whitish ; 

 the jugulum and breast pale ferruginous, adorned with shining 

 white spots ; the body white ; the rump and upper tail-corerts 

 immaculate red. 



Hemipodius nivosus. Philosophical Magazine (Swainso?i), i\ Ix. 

 p. 353. — Swain. Z^ol. Illust. v. iii. pi. 163. 



Inhabits Senegal. A lengthened description of 

 this bird is given by Mr. Swainson in the Philoso- 

 phical Magazine above quoted ; but as I have already 

 exceeded the limits originally designed, I am com- 

 pelled to omit it, and in lieu thereof have introduced the 



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