GALLINiE. 
Fam. TINAMIDyE. 
Bill longer than in the last family, straight at the base, compressed at the tip ; nostrils 
linear. Wings short. Tail very short, wanting in some genera ; upper tail-coverts lengthened, 
concealing the tail in many. Tarsus moderately lengthened, without spurs. Hind toe usually 
wanting, in some very small. 
Sternum with a deep emargination next to the keel, and the outer notch wanting. 
Genus TURN1X. 
Bill lather long, compressed, straight at the base, the tip well curved; gonys-angle pro- 
nounced. Wings moderate ; the quills curved, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd quills the longest. Tail 
veiy shoit, lax, of 10 or 12 feathers. Tarsus lengthened, much exceeding the middle toe, 
piotected in tiont with rectangular scales; hind toe wanting; middle toe much longer than the 
lateral ones ; claws stout. 
Female in some species larger than the male and more handsomely coloured. 
TUKNIX TAIGOOE. 
(THE BLACK-BREASTED BUSTARD-QUAIL.) 
Hemipodius taigoor , Sykes, Cat. B. Dukhun, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 155 (the male) ; id. Trans. 
Zool. Soc. ii. p. 23, pi. iv. (1841). 
Hemipodius pugnax, Sykes, ut supra, p. 155 (the female). 
Turnta ocellatm (Scop.), Blyth, Cat. B. Mu S . A. S. B. (rufous var. from South India and 
Ceylon), p. 256 (1849). 
near KottiaVhnSit ° nCe met . with a dock or bev y of sma11 Q uai] among the long grass in tolerably open jungle 
ear Kottiar, but did not procure a specimen. It is possible they may have been the above species; but, on the other 
lerdoi ^d 18 9 7 7^7* 0f r * I * * * * T Ud 'r, (y ' Wmia7 With wHcb ^ ma - v }lave been identical. I therefore subjoin 
chestnut brown 1 eThf 7 f Tk i black - barred - with a P alc supercihum and central stripe; upper pUrts 
7r of L p , ’ i e p er UO y ^ ? th jlaCk and ed § ed With y elIowisb wbite - conspicuously on the scapular' and 
dtw ht’ ° n W1 “8- Coverts . f° broadl y as t0 a PP ear entirely yellowish white, with chestnut black-edged spots ; 
1 f Sh 7 T l ™“P. and "W er ta il-cov e rts dark brown, closely barred with black, and with faint whitish edges to 
the feathers, throat whitish, with open blackish specks on the sides; breast pale ferruginous, with the sides of theneck 
and breast with dark brown drops and Wes; abdomen whitish; bill plumbeous; irides pale yellow; legs fleshy 
whitish. Length 5 to 5| inches, wing 2f, tarsus f & * 
“Occurs throughout the whole of India (not, 'h'owe'ver, affecting hilly or forest districts) in grass, corn-fields and 
wherever there is thick herbage. It is flushed with great difficulty, often getting up at your very feet, flies but a few 
yards, and drops down again into grass, not to be reflushed but after a most laborious search, and sometimes allowing 
itself to be caught by the hand or by a dog.” s 
