. The birds of South Africa. Birds. TUBNICIDffl TURNIX 239 the breast pale buff, each feather with a dark brown semicircular spot, centre of the chest and under tail-coverts pale rusty, becoming white on the abdomen; central pair of tail-feathers elongated and pointed. Iris very pale yellow ; bill bluish-horn with black tip ; feet pale brownish-yellow. Length 5-25 ; wing 290; tail I'lO ; culmen -40 ; tarsus '80. The female is larger and more distinctly marked throughout ; the rusty patch on the chest is markedly darker than that of the male. Length 5'75 ; wing 3-3 ; tarsus -90. This bird is re
. The birds of South Africa. Birds. TUBNICIDffl TURNIX 239 the breast pale buff, each feather with a dark brown semicircular spot, centre of the chest and under tail-coverts pale rusty, becoming white on the abdomen; central pair of tail-feathers elongated and pointed. Iris very pale yellow ; bill bluish-horn with black tip ; feet pale brownish-yellow. Length 5-25 ; wing 290; tail I'lO ; culmen -40 ; tarsus '80. The female is larger and more distinctly marked throughout ; the rusty patch on the chest is markedly darker than that of the male. Length 5'75 ; wing 3-3 ; tarsus -90. This bird is regarded by Grant as merely a subspecies of Turnix sylvatica of Southern Europe and Northern Africa, from which it only differs in its slightly smaller >';3 Fig. 74.—Head of Turnix lepurana. x -j Distribution.—As in the case of so many other birds this Button Quail was first obtained and described by Sir A. Smith, from the neighbourhood of Kurrichane, now in the western Transvaal. It is widely distributed throughout the whole of South Africa, except perhaps in the western half of Cape Colony. Beyond our limits it extends northwards to the Gold Coast and to north-east Africa and Aden. The following is a list of localities as recorded, but as there has been a certain amount of confusion in regard to the identification of the species of this genus, too much reliance must not be placed on it, especially as regards the older records : Cape Colony—Port Elizabeth (Eickard), East London (Wood), Morokweng, Mafeking district (Bryden); Natal—Newcastle, August, and Pinetown (Butler, Eeilden and Eeid), Alexandra County and Zululand (Woodward); Orange Eiver Colony—Kroonstad, April (Symonds); Transvaal— Potchefstroom, September (Ayres); Bechuanaland—near Palapye, December (Ayres); Ehodesia—Matopos, near Bulawayo, October (S. A. Mus.), near Salisbury (Marshall); German South-west Africa. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have
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