. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Birds. Herholdt 231 Bull. 2001 121(4) Observations on the nocturnal migration of the Kurrichane Buttonquail in northern South Africa by J J. Herholdt Received 6 January 2000 The Kurrichane Buttonquail Turnix sylvatica occurs over most of sub-Saharan Africa, and is widespread in southern Africa except in the south and southwest (Colahan 1997, Maclean 1993). It avoids forests and deserts (Urban etal. 1986). It also occurs in southwest Europe, southern and south-eastern Asia, parts of Asia, Philippines, Sulus, Java and Bali (Urban etal.

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. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Birds. Herholdt 231 Bull. 2001 121(4) Observations on the nocturnal migration of the Kurrichane Buttonquail in northern South Africa by J J. Herholdt Received 6 January 2000 The Kurrichane Buttonquail Turnix sylvatica occurs over most of sub-Saharan Africa, and is widespread in southern Africa except in the south and southwest (Colahan 1997, Maclean 1993). It avoids forests and deserts (Urban etal. 1986). It also occurs in southwest Europe, southern and south-eastern Asia, parts of Asia, Philippines, Sulus, Java and Bali (Urban etal. 1986). The Kurrichane Buttonquail is considered to be an intra-African migrant (Urban et al. 1986) but little is known of its migration. Tarboton et al. (1987) and Irwin (1981) considered it to be nomadic in the Transvaal and Zimbabwe respectively. Wintle Study area. Figure 1. Map of the farm Kennedy's Vale (20°51'S, 30°08'E) showing mountains and supposed flight-route (arrow) of the Kurrichane Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Ornithologists' Club. London : The Club

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