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Turnix maculosa, Temminck.
VomaOTllar Names.—[Ngon, (Burmese), A S * ] .
„OTHING is accurately known of the distribution
of this species. It occurs, though sparingly, throughout
Tenasserim, in Pegu, * and Aracan, and I have
specimens from Hill Tipperah. I should have expected
to find this species in Assam, but Godwin-
Austen, in his fourth list, gives the Indian species
(JT. joudera, which, following Jcrdon, he erroneously
designates T. dussumieri) from the Naga Hills. Perhaps he
failed to distinguish the two species, which scarcely differ except
in size.
Certainly it is the present species that occurs in Independent
Burma, and I have reason to believe that it extends into the
northern portions of the Malay Peninsula.
Burmese and Chinese specimens are not to be separated, and
David and Oustalet tell us they have compared Chinese specimens
with Temminck's type and found only insignificant differences.
We may, therefore, assume that this specics-f- occurs
throughout China, extending into Eastern Siberia, where
Prjevalski obtained it in the country of the Ussuri, and whence
Dybouski sent it from near Lake Chanka.
Probably this same species will be found to occur in Siam,
Cochin China and Tonquin.
I HAVE never shot this species myself, but doubt not that its
habits and haunts are almost precisely similar to that of its
Indian representative, T. joudera. Davison, who has shot it
throughout Tenasserim only, says :—" I have always found this
species about gardens or in the immediate vicinity of cultiva-
* Oates writes:—L'I have procured two specimens near the town of Pegu in
gardens. I know nothing of its habits, and judge it to be rare. It is probably a
constant resident."
I have received specimens from many localities in Pegu.
\ Renamed vktarius by Swinhoe.