THREE-BANDED SAND-GROUSE. 225 
light ; the bill is small, slender, and compressed ; 
the gonys, straight. 
Total length, 1 0 inches ; bill, from the gape, ; 
wings, 6 reaching to the tip of the tail ; tail, from 
the base, 3| ; tarsus, 1 ^ ; hind-toe almost obsolete, 
measuring, with the claw, only 
WHITE-SPOTTED TURNIX. 
Ilemipodius nivosus, Swains. 
Above varied with ferruginous ; chin whitish ; throat and 
breast pale ferrugineous, with white shining roundish spots ; 
body and outer half of the wing-covers white ; ramp and 
upper tail-covers rufous and unspotted. 
H. nivosus, Swains. Phil. Mag. vol. lx. p. 353 — H. nivosus, 
Zool. lllust., 1st series, iii. pi. 163. — Tumix Meiffren ? PI. 
Col. pi. GO. 1. 
We have already given such a minute account of 
this elegant little bird in the journal above alluded 
to, that it is only necessary to repeat its specific cha- 
racter, and to incorporate it in this work as a native 
of Senegal. Whether it is the Tumix Meiffren of 
Temminck, as some suppose, is very doubtful, for 
an inspection of the two figures will show how much 
they differ. Yet, if that of M. Temminck is really 
intended for our nivosus, his name must sink as a 
synonyme, for our description appeared more than 
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