TURNIX FASCIATUS , Temm.
Fasciated Hemipode.
Hemipodim /« sc in to , Temm. Hist. Nat. Gfe. des Big. e t des GaU., tom. iiï. pp. 634 and 767. •
T'urnw fasciatus, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. iii. p. 611, Tumvc, sp. 14.
fasciata, Bonap. Tab. Barali, de l’O rdre des Gallinacés in Compt. Rend, de l’Acad. des Sci., tom. xlii.
Mai 12, 1856.
Mb. W a l l a c e has sent several examples of a species of T r n i x from Macassar, which I have bat little
doubt are referable to the Hemipodim fa sd a tm of Temminck, who states that he took his description from a
specimen in the Paris Museum, which was said to have been received from the Philippine Islands, and
which np to the present moment has remained unique; the acquisition then of additional examples of this
rare bird by Mr. Wallace is a further evidenee,of the great service his explorations have rendered to the
cause of ornithological science.
As no figure of the bird has been previously published either in this country or on the continent, I trust
some interest will attach to those here given, which represent both sexes of the size of life, or perhaps
a trifle smaller.
The sexes present the usual difference in the smaller size of the male, but, contrary to the general
rule with regard to this group of birds, are very similarly coloured.
Specimens of both sexes, procured by Mr. Wallace, are contained in the National Collection and in my own.
The male has the head mottled with black and. brown, and a line of bufly white down the c en tre; face
buffy white speckled with black ; back light reddish brown, gradually passing into deep rust-red on the lower
part, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; a few of the feathers of the upper part of the back with a crescent of
black, succeeded by another of buffy white at the t ip ; the lower or redder part rayed transversely with
black ; wings brown, each of the coverts with alarge spot of black near the tip, and tipped with bufly white;
primaries edged, and secondaries mottled and edged on their external webs with pale reddish brown; chin
buff I neck, breast, and upper half of the flanks crossed by numerous fasciae of bufly white and black, which
increase in' size as they descend from the throat j centre of the abdomen buff j lower half of the flanks,
vent, thighs, and under tail-coverts sandy r e d ; bill and feet greenish yellow.
In the female the general arrangement of the colours is very; similar, but the forehead and sides of the
head are much darker, approaching to black, and these black feathers are tipped with white, forming a mottled
line over each eye; the line down the centre of the bead is g rey ; the markings of the wings are bolder,
and the fasci® which commence on the chin are narrower and more numerous.
The Plate represents the two sexes about the size o f life.