Order TURN1CIF0RMES. Family TURNICIDJS. 
No. 48. 
AUSTROTURNIX OLIVII. 
BUFF-BREASTED QUAIL. 
Turnix olivii Robinson, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, Vol. X., p. mn., Feb. 28th, 1900: Cooktown, 
Queensland. 
Turnix olivii Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. I., pt. 1, pi. 17, Oct. 31st, 1910; A. J. Campbell, 
Emu, Vol. XXII., pt. I., p. 1, pis. 1 to 4, July, 1922. 
Austroturnix olivii ccenensis Mathews, ib., Vol. XLIII., p. 14, Oct. 27th, 1922: Coen, North 
Queensland (fig. Emu, Vol. XXII., pi. 1, (1922) ). 
Distribution. Cooktown and Coen, North Queensland. 
Adult male. Fore-part of head, middle of crown, and middle of nape dark lead-grey, the shafts 
of the feathers on the fore-head black and somewhat stiffened ; nasal bristles numerous 
but short ; a black band on each side of the crown and nape, with dark chestnut margins 
to the feathers ; sides of face grey, freckled with whitish like the sides of the neck • 
mantle and back cinnamon-rufous with grey fringe, white sub-marginal streaks and 
broad black cross-bands to the feathers ; scapulars similar but much more grey and less 
black ; rump and upper tail-coverts cinnamon-rufous, the feathers slightly margined 
WTth grey ; tail for the most part grey with a slight tinge of rufous; lesser upper wing- 
co\ erts drab -grey ■with blackish centres to the feathers; the median and greater series 
pale cinnamon, irregularly marked with blackish and dull white ; bastard wing blackish- 
brown margined with white ; primary-coverts also blackish -brown slightly paler at the 
tips , flight-quills dark brown somewhat paler at the tips and margined with white on 
the outer webs, more broadly on the primaries, the innermost secondaries similar in 
colour to the back; throat . silvery-grey with white shaft-streaks; fore-neck and 
breast fawn-yellow tinged with grey at the sides of the abdomen ; sides of body grey, 
some of the feathers tinged with rufous and marked with white; abdomen, thighs, and 
short under tail-coverts greyish-white, the long coverts of the last pale buff; axillaries 
and under wing-coverts grey ; under-surface of flight-quills glossy-grey ; lower aspect 
of tail also grey; eyes yellow ; upper mandible dark brown, cutting edges and lower 
bluish-white ; legs yellow. Total length 183 mm.: culmen 13, wing 100, tail 39, tarsus 23. 
Collected at Coen, North Queensland, on the 5th of February, 1922. 
Adult female. Middle of crown, sides of crown, sides of face, sides of neck and hind-neck 
lead-grey, which is paler on the nape and more or less interspersed with cinnamon; the 
fore-part of the head darker than the crown, the feathers bristle-like in texture and 
inclining to blackish ; a broad line of dark chestnut on each side of the crown and ex¬ 
tending on the sides of the nape where some of the feathers are tipped with black; 
lower hind-neck, mantle back and scapulars cinnamon-rufous ; some of the feathers on 
the scapulars are barred with black and edged with white; rump, upper tail-coverts 
and tail also cinnamon-rufous with olive-grey edgings to the feathers ; lesser upper wing- 
coverts black intermixed with cinnamon and grey; median and greater series cinnamon 
with irregular markings of white and black, the latter more minutely; bastard-wing 
blackish fringed with white ; primary-coverts also blackish slightly paler at the tips ; flight- 
quills dark brown becoming paler at the tip and greyish-white along the margins of the 
outer primaries ; innermost secondaries similar to the back but more coarsely marked 
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