Order TURNICIF0RME8 
No. 20. 
Family TURNICIDJS. 
TURNIX PYRRHOTHORAX. 
RED-CHESTED QUAIL. 
(Plate 18.) 
Hemipodius pyrehothorax Gould, P.Z.S., p. 150 (1840), New South Wales. 
Hemi'podius 'pynrothorax Gould, P.Z.S., p. 150 (1840) ; id., B. Austr., V., PI. 86 (1848). 
Turnix pyrrhothorax Gould, in Grey’s Journ. Disc. Austr., II., p. 419 (1841) ; id., Handb. 
B. Austr., II., p. 186 (1865) ; Ramsay, Tab. List. Austr. B., p. 19 (1888) ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 287 (1889) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, p. 474 (1889) ; id.. Cat. 
B. Brit. Mus., XXII., p. 553 (1893) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 733 
(1901) ; Le Souef, Emu II., p. 94 (1902) ; Hall, Key B. Austr., p. 75 (1906) ; Berney, 
Emu, VI., p. 107 (1907) ; Mathews, Handl. B. Austral,, p. 8 (1908) ; id.. Emu, 
IX., p. 53 (1909). 
Turnix {Hemipodius) pyrrhothorax Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., i., p. 185 (1876). 
Distribution. North-West Australia ; Northern Territory ; Queensland ; New South 
Wales ; Victoria ; South Australia. 
Adult female. General colour above, dark ashy-grey, varied with black in the form of 
narrow vermiculated bars, with cross-lines of dull rufous on many of the feathers, 
several of which are edged with duU white, producing a shghtly streaked appearance ; 
these streaks more apparent on the margins of the scapulars, which have black mark- 
ings, and reddish and black vermiculations towards their ends ; wing-coverts duU 
ashy-grey, with faint fulvescent edges ; the inner median and greater coverts rufescent 
buff with a few black cross-bars ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish-brown, 
forming a wing-patch ; quiUs dusky-brown, with very narrow fulvescent margins, 
lighter on the four outer primaries, the first of which is conspicuously margined with 
buffy-white, like the edge of the wing ; the secondaries fringed with ashy-white 
at the ends, the inner ones barred with buffy-white, and vermiculated and barred 
with black ; rump and upper tail-coverts rather darker than the back, and 
regularly barred across with black and dull rufous, resembling the scapulars ; tail- 
feathers ashy-brown, with indistinct blackish bars ; crown of head dusky-brown, 
with cross bars of black and a narrow line of white down the middle of the head ; the 
hind-neck hke the mantle, spotted with smaU white streaks, edged with blackish ; 
on the sides of the neck, a shghtly scaly appearance, the feathers being white, barred 
with black ; lores, eyebrows, cheeks, and ear-coverts white, minutely barred with 
black, the ear-coverts appearing as if streaked with white ; entire throat and breast 
orange-chestnut, like the fianks and under tail-coverts ; on the sides of the breast a 
patch of mottled grey, the feathers being grey, barred with fulvous and black ; the 
abdomen whiter ; under wing-coverts very pale ashy-grey, with a slight fulvous 
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