Order TURNICIF0RME8. 
No. 18. 
Family TURNICIDJE. 
TURNIX CASTAXOTA. 
CHESTNUT-BACKED QUAIL. 
(Plate 16). 
Hemipodius castanottjs Gould, P.Z.S., p. 145 (1839), North-West Coast of Australia. 
Hemi'podius castanotus Gould, P.Z.S., p. 145 (1839) ; id., B. Austr., V., PI. 85 (1848). 
Turnix castanotus Gould, in Grey’s Journ. Disc. Austr., II., p. 419 (1841) ; id., Handb. B. 
Austr., II., p. 183 (1865) ; Ramsay, Tab. List. B. Austr., p. 18 (1888) ; Hartert, 
Nov. Zool., XII., p. 195 (1905). 
Perdix {Hemipodius) castanotus Thienemann, Fortpflanz. ges. Vogel, p. 54, PI. XII., 
fig. 7 (1846). 
Turnix castanota Grey, Handl. B., II., p. 270 (1870). 
Turnix castanonota Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, p. 474 (1889) ; id., Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXII., p. 552 
(1893) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 733 (1901) ; Oates, Cat. Birds’ 
Eggs Brit. Mus., I., p. 73 (1901); “Editor,” Emu IL, p. 40 (1902); Le Souef, 
Emu, II., p. 94 (1902) ; Hall, Key B. Austr., p. 75 (1906) ; Mathews, Handl. 
B. Austral., p. 7 (1908). 
Turnix olivii MiUigan,* not Robinson, Rep, Expl. N.W. Kimberley, p. 58 (1902). 
Distribution. North-west Australia ; Northern Territory ; North Queensland. 
Adult female. General colour above vinous-chestnut, the feathers edged on either web 
with white, producing a streaked appearance ; these white marginal lines accom- 
panied by an inner line of black ; towards the end of the feathers some more or less 
broken bars of black ; lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts, dull vinous-chestnut 
shaded with ashy-grey, and having nearly obsolete blackish bars ; scapulars like 
the back, but with somewhat broader white margins externally ; wing-coverts 
vinous-chestnut, the marginal coverts edged with black, the median and greater series 
slightly ashy-grey on the edges, and having ovate spots of white, bordered with 
black on their upper margins ; primary-coverts and quills sepia-brown, almost black, 
with narrow rufescent edges, the first primary whitish along the outer web ; tail- 
feathers vinous-chestnut with faintly indicated dusky cross-bars ; crown vinous- 
chestnut, with a line of ashy-grey down the middle of the crown to the nape, the 
sides of the crown with scarcely any spots or bars of black, forming a broad band of 
vinous-chestnut on each side of the mesial grey band ; forehead, lores, and a broad 
eyebrow mottled with small white spots, each of which has a black margin, this 
spotted appearance being continued on to the sides of the nape ; ear-coverts streaked 
with white, the feathers narrowly edged with black ; sides of neck, hinder neck and 
upper mantle vinous-chestnut, with ovate spots of white, each spot narrowly margined 
* Specimen examined. 
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