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ANDALUSIAN TURNIX. 

 (Turnix tachydromus.) 



Tu. corpore rufo nigro-undulato, suhtus Jlavescente, t<znia longi"- 

 tudinali rufescente alba in vej'ticej superciliis rufescentibus, 



Turnix with the body red, undulated with black j beneath yel- 

 lowish J the crown with a longitudinal reddish white band j: 

 the eyebrows reddish. 



Hemipodius tachydromus. Temm. Gall. Ind. 756* 



Tetrao Andalusicus. Gmel, Syst. Nat. 1 . 766. 



Perdix Andalusica. Lath, Ind. Orn. 2. 656. 46. 



Turnix tachydrome. Temm. Pig., et Gall. 3. 626, 



Andalusian Quail. Lath, Gen, Syn. 4. 791. 3S.pl. in Jront. 



Six inches in length : top of the head dusky 

 brown, divided longitudinally with three reddish 

 yellow bands, the two outward of which form a 

 kind of brow over each eye ; the third passes- 

 down the middle of the crown : the throat is white : 

 the fore-part of the neck and the breast are pure 

 rufous, edged wdth yellowish on their sides, and 

 each feather with a small crescent of black : the 

 sides are bright red, sprinkled with a few black 

 spots : the middle of the belly, the abdomen, and 

 the under tail-coverts, are white : the nape is 

 greyish red, waved with black and red : the back, 

 the rump, and the scapulars, are varied with Ion* 

 gitudinal waves of red and black, running parallel 

 with the margin of the feathers : the edges of all 

 the feathers of the scapulars are white : the wing- 

 coverts are yellow j the greater ones with a red 



