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HOTTENTOT TURNIX. 



rounded with white, which also ends the feathers : 

 chin and throat barred black and dusky white: 

 breast white, with a crescent of black on each 

 feather, except down the middle, which is of a pale 

 rust-colour ; and there is likewise a mixture of 

 this last along with the black : belly, sides, and 

 vent, paler, inclining to yellow : quills and tail 

 dusky ; the last short, and striated with black and 

 rufous brown, fringed with white : legs pale : toes 

 only three in number, all placed forwards." 



This bird inhabits the countries on the African 

 coast of the Mediterranean, and occasionally visits 

 the southern shores of Spain. 



HOTtENTOT TURNIX. 



(Turnix Hottentottus.) 



Tu. vertice nigricante, rufo-maculato,gutture albo, corpore supra 

 et subtus albescente-rufo, nigro-rtifo et albescente maculato, 

 ventre imo abdomineque albescentibus. 



Turnix with the crown dusky, spotted with white 3 the throat 

 white ; the body above and beneath whitish red, spotted with 

 reddish black and whitish 5 the lower belly and abdomen 

 whitish. 



Hemipodius Hottentotus. Temm. Gall. Lid. p. 757- 

 Turnix Hottentot. Temm, Pig, et Gall, 3. 636. 



