STRIPED TURNIX. 395 



Discovered by Sonnerat in the Isle of Luf on, 

 one of the Philippines : it is rather less than the 

 common Quail, and is about seven inches in 

 length : the top of the head, the cheeks, and the 

 nape, are covered with black and white spots, the 

 former being most numerous : the feathers of the 

 throat are white, tipped with black : the under 

 part of the neck and the breast are fine bright 

 red : the belly is of a bright yellowish : the sides, 

 the thighs, and the abdomen, are the same : the 

 back, the rump, and the feathers covering the 

 tail, are grey-brown, marked with delicate zigzag 

 black lines: the greater and lesser wing-coverts 

 are whitish yellow, varied with black spots, with a 

 bright red transverse stripe above each of the 

 latter : the greater feathers of the wings are grey- 

 brown, and spotless, and the tail is very short : 

 the beak and feet are grey. 



STRIPED TURNIX. 



(Turnix fasciatus.) 



Tu. vertice nigro, cervice rufo, corpore supra Jusco-nigro macu- 

 latOf suhtus riifOf guld pectoreque albo nigroque transversim 

 Jasciatis. 



Turnix with the crown black 5 the nape of the neck rufous^ the 

 body above brown, spotted with black ; beneath rufous 5 with 

 the throat and breast transversely striped with white and 

 black. 



Hemipodius fasciatus. Temm. Gull, Ind» p, 757' 

 Turnix raye. Temm. Pig. et Gall, 3. p. G34. 



