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FIGHTING TURNIX. 

 (Turnix Pugnax.) 



Tu. guiture nigfo, superciliis temporihusque alho et nigro-punc- 

 tatisy corpore supra riifescente, nigro et albo variegato, subtus 

 albo et nigro transverso lineato. 



Turnix with the throat black ; the eyebrows and temples spotted 

 with black and white ; the body above reddish, variegated 

 with black and white 3 beneath white, transversely striped 

 with black. 



Hemipodius pugnax. Temm. Gall. Ind. p. 754, 

 Turnix combattant. Temm, Pig. et Gall, 3. p. 6l2. 



A SINGULAR and hitherto undescribed species^ 

 except by Temminck, who records it nearly as^ 

 follows. Its total length is about five inches and 

 a half or six inches : the top of the head is of a 

 dusky brown, tinged with red : its eyebrows, space 

 between the beak and eyes^ the cheeks, and mark 

 behind the eyes, are white, varied with black spots : 

 the throat is deep black : the nape is reddish : the 

 back, the rump, the coverts which hide the tail, 

 and the scapulars, are brown, varied with red, and 

 marked near the tip of each feather with several 

 transverse undulated bands of deep black : some 

 of the scapulars are irregularly spotted with black, 

 and the whole are longitudinally edged with white : 

 the sides and fore-part of the neck, the breast, the 

 upper part of the belly, and the wing-coverts, are 

 equally striped with broad black and white bands. 



