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Birds of Celebes: Tumicidae. 
Turmx can always be distinguished from the Quails and other Gahinaceous 
birds and from the Kails by the absence of the hind toe. From the three-toed 
Limicolae it differs by its general Quail-like appearance, Gallinaceous bill, and 
short blunt wing. 
FAMILY TURNICIDAE. 
The Tumicidae differ from Pedionomus by the characters mentioned above. 
GENUS TURNIX Bonnat. 
Plumage variegated; tail short, once to twice the length of the tarsus; 
tarsus scutellated in front and behind; hallux absent; wing rounded, first quill 
reaching to the tip, inner secondaries almost equally long. Sexes dissimilar, 
the female handsomer and pugnacious, the male weaker and plainer, broodinc^ 
on the eggs. ^ 
* 292. TURNIX RUPILATUS Wall. 
Celebes Bustard-quail. 
a. Turnix fasciatus (I) Gld. (nec Temm.), B. Asia VII, pi. 11 (1861). 
Turnix rufilatus (1) Wallace, P. Z. S. 1865, 480; (2) Walden, Tr. Z. 8. 1872 VTTT 87- 
(3) Platen, Gefied. Welt 1887, 206, 230; (4) Grant, Ibis 1889, 447, 460- (5) id..’ 
Oat. B. XXTT , 1893, 536; (6) Biittik., Weber’s Eeise in Ost-Ind. 1893 in 281- 
(7) Hart., Nov. ZooL 1896, 164, 576; (8) id., ib. 1897, 166. 
h. Turnix rufilata (1) Gray, HL. H, 1870, 270, Nr. 9737. 
c. Turnix rufilateralis (1) Rosenb., Malay. Arcliip. 1878, 276. 
Figure and descriptions. Gould a Wallace 7; Grant 5. 
Adult female. “General tone above Avarm brown, greyish on the mantle, and inchning to 
rutous on the rump, each feather vermiculated with black, and some in the middle 
of the back and scapulars with a subterminal black blotch. Feathers of the top of 
the head black, margined with rusty brown; lores black; superciliary stripe and sides 
of the head white and black. Chin, throat, chest, and breast white barred with black; 
middle of belly whitish buff, sides of belly, flanks, and under tail-coverts rusty buff. 
Wings and wing-coverts as m T. taigom' [blackish brown — the wing-coverts rufous 
or brown on the inner iveb and buff on the outer, and barred with black] but the 
outer pnmary only is edged ivith whitish buff: - bill and feet pale greenish yellow; 
[claws pale, Wallace ij. — Wing 91 mm; tail 33; tarsus 28” (Grant 5). 
“Iris whitisli; feet ochreoiis, joints greenish; bill ochreous” — Doherty 8 
Male. „The males are decidedly smaller than the females, the black borders to the throaG 
feathers are very narrow, the chin almost pure white, the wing-coverts have more 
white, the scapulars rather less, not more rust-colour” (Hartert 8). 
Distribution. Celebes: — Near Macassar (Wallace 1, 5, Weber 6, Everett 7); Indrulaman 
near Bonthain (Ev. 7); Minahassa (Platen 5); West Celebes — Taivaya (Doherty S). 
In North Celebes this Hemipode has been recorded only by Dr. Platen; 
in the South of the Island Macassar and Indrulaman are the only localities yet 
