SPOTTED TURNIX. 



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This bird is distinguished by its very short tail, 

 which scarcely exceeds the tips of the wings when 

 closed : its length is five inches : the top of the 

 head is varied with black spots, and the whole of 

 the feathers are tipped with greyish red : a white 

 band extends over the crown : the eyebrows, the 

 sides of the neck, and the nape, are bright red: 

 the throat and the cheeks are reddish white : the 

 fore-part of the neck, the breast, the belly, the 

 sides, and the thighs, are red, and (with the ex- 

 ception of the feathers of the sides and those of the 

 edge of the breast, which are varied with stripes 

 of black and reddish white,) they are spotless : 

 the feathers of the top of the back and the sca- 

 pulars are black in the centre, bordered with 

 white, and tipped with red : those of the middle 

 of the back, and the long ones which hide the tail, 

 are deep black, varied with rufous undulations, 

 and slightly edged with yellowish : the scapulars 

 are a trifle spotted with grey-blue : the wing- 

 coverts are reddish yellow; the whole of the 

 feathers with a black spot near the tip, and the 

 longer ones with the inner webs red, spotted with 

 black : the quills and the secondary feathers are 

 bright grey, edged with reddish white : the feet 

 and the beak are fine yellow. 



Discovered during the last voyage of Baudin in 

 New Holland. 



