Order TURNICIFORMES 
No. 15. 
Family TURNICIDM. 
TURNIX MACULOSA. 
BLACK-BACKED QUAIL. 
(Plate 13.) 
Hemipodius macxjlostjs Temminck, Pig. et Gall., III., p. 631 (1815), New Holland. 
Hemipodius maculosus Temminck, Pig. et Gall., III., pp. 631, 757 (1815). 
Turnix maculosus Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., XI., p. 394 (1819). 
Turnix maculatus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., XXXV., p. 47 (1819) ; id., Gal. 
des Ois., II., p. 51, PI. 217 (1825). 
Hemipodius melanotus, Gould, P.Z.S., p. 8 (1837) ; id., Syn. B. Austr., PI. 30 (1837) ; id., 
B. Austr., V., PI. 84 (1848). 
Turnix melanotus Gould, in Grey’s Journ. Disc., Vol. II., p. 419 (1841) ; id., Handb. B. Austr., 
II., p. 182 (1865) ; Ramsay, P.Z.S., N.S.W., I., p. 185 (1876) ; id.. Tab. List. Austr. B., 
p, 18 (1888) ; North, Rec. Austr. Mus., I., p. 195 (1891). 
Turnix heccarii Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ., Genova, VII., p. 675 (1875). 
Turnix melanota Forbes, P.Z.S., p. 127 (1878), 
Turnix melanonota Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ., Genova, XVIII., p. 9 (1882), part. 
Turnix maculosa Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, p. 468 (1889) ; North, B. County Cumberland, p. 107 
(1898) ; OgUvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXII., p. 546 (1893) ; Campbell, Nests and 
Eggs Austr. B., p. 730 (1901) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, PL B. V. (1904) ; 
HaU, Key B. Austr., p. 74 (1906) ; Mathews, Handl. B. Austral., p. 7 (1908) ; id.. 
Emu, IX., p. 53 (1909). 
Turnix nmculosus Hartert, Nov, Zool., XII., p. 195 (1905) ; Rothschild and Hartert, Nov. 
Zool., XIV., p. 448 (1907). 
Distribution. North-West Austraha ; Northern Territory, Queensland ; New South 
Wales; Victoria and South Australia ; (South-East New Guinea ; South-East Celebes). 
Adult female. Head greyish-brown, barred with black ; feathers of the forehead margined 
with rufous ; hind-neck and sides of neck bright rufous ; back slate-grey, barred 
with black and chestnut ; scapulars similar in colour, margined with white or 
ochreous-buff on the outer webs ; lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts black, 
the feathers very narrowly barred or margined with chestnut or white ; tail-feathers 
brown, with indications of black bars ; lesser wing-coverts dusky ; median and 
greater wing-coverts barred with ochreous and black ; bastard-wing dark brown 
margined on the outer web with buffy-white ; primary-coverts blackish ; quills 
dark brown, the outer one edged with white ; the innermost secondaries hke the 
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