Order TURNIGIF0RME8 Family TURNICIDJE. 
No. 17. 
TURNIX VARIA. 
PAINTED QUAIL. 
(Plate 15.) 
Perdix VARIA Latham, Ind. Orn. Suppl., p. Ixiii. (1801), New South Wales. 
New Holland Partridge Latham, Gen. Syn., Suppl., II., p, 283 (1801). 
Perdix varia, Latham, Ind. Om. Suppl., p. Ixiii. (1801) ; Thienemann, Fortpflanz. ges. Vogel, 
p. 63 (1846). 
Turnix varius Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., XXXV., p. 47 (1819) ; Gould, in Grey’s 
Joum. Disc., Vol. II., p. 419 (1841) ; id., Handb. B. Austr., II., p. 179 (1865) ; 
Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 185 (1876) ; id., Tab. List. Austr. B., p. 18 (1888) ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 285 (1889) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, p. 473 (1889) ; 
Heartland, B. Melb. Distr., p. 112 (1900). 
Varied Quail Latham, Gen. Hist. B., VIII., p. 344 (1823). 
Hemipodius varius Temmmck, PL Col., No. 454 (1828) ; Gould, Syn. B. Austr,, PI. 31 (1837 ) ; 
id., B. Austr., V., PI. 82 (1848) ; Sturt, Exp. Centr. Austr., App., p. 46 (1849). 
Hemipodius scintillans Gould, P.Z.S., p. 62 (1845) ; id., B. Austr., V., PI. 83 (1848). 
Turnix scintillans Gould, Handb. B. Austr., II., p. 181 (1865) ; Ramsay, Tab. List. Austr. 
B., p. 18 (1888). 
Turnix varia Ramsay, Ibis, p. 334 (1866) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXII., p. 551 
(1893) ; North, B. County Cumberland, p. 107 (1898) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs 
Austr. B., p, 731 (1901) ; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs Brit. Mus., I., p. 72 (1901) ; MiUigan, 
Emu, II., p. 75 (1902) ; id., Nat. Hist. West. Austr,, p. 120 (1903) ; Maclaine, Emu, 
IV., p. 21 (1904) ; Hall, Key B. Austr., p. 75 (1906) ; id., Useful B. South Austr., 
p. 234 (1907) ; Mathews, Handl. B, Austral., p. 7 (1908) ; Littler, Hkndb. B. 
Tasmania, p. 109 (1910). 
Distribution, Austraha and Tasmania. 
Adult female. General colour above chestnut, varied with black and grey, and linearly 
streaked with white. Mantle and back chestnut, with a few bars or spots of black, 
the feathers of the back more plainly barred with wavy cross-hnes of black, and 
haying a broad black subterminal band ; on each side of the feathers a margin of 
white, producing a striped appearance ; scapulars like the back, grey, with chestnut 
and black markings towards the end of the feathers, which have somewhat broader 
white linear margins ; lower back and rump like the rest of the back, but more 
mottled with chestnut, and black bars, and with the white marginal streaks less 
strongly developed ; upper tail-coverts hke the rump, but with broader white edges 
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