HOTTENTOT TURNIX. 



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This species, which is not only the smallest of 

 the present genus, but of the gallinaceous birds, 

 is about the size of a Lark, and measures five 

 inches in length : the top of the head is black, 

 each feather being tipped with rufous : a small 

 dash passes over the crown to the nape : the eye- 

 brows are rufous : the throat is white, each feather 

 tipped with bright red, which colour is expanded 

 over the cheeks : the sides and fore-part of the 

 neck, the breast, and lateral parts of the body, 

 are reddish white, with a broad but short band of 

 deep black towards the tip, which latter is yel- 

 lowish white : the middle of the belly and the 

 abdomen are of a whitish yellow, spotted with 

 brown : the nape is grey, varied with deeper grey : 

 the back, the scapulars, and the rump, are striped 

 and waved with spots and lines of deep red and 

 black : the scapulars are edged with a broad white 

 band, which is accompanied interiorly with one 

 of deep black : the wing-coverts are varied with 

 red, white, and black ; the red occupying the 

 inner, and the black and white the outer webs : 

 the quills and secondaries are bright brown, tipped 

 and fringed with yellowish white : the feathers of 

 the tail are varied with waved black and red 

 stripes, and large white spots : the beak is brown, 

 and the feet are yellow. 



This species is one of the numerous discoveries 

 of that indefatigable naturalist Le Vaillant, who 

 communicated the following circumstance rela- 

 tive to its history to Temminck. This bird is 



