202 THE NICOBAR BUTTON QUAIL.
by some authors as a distinct genus, Areoturnix•• of the second
type (the Button Quails), T.joudera will serve as an example.
Intermediate forms occur, and I think it sufficient to retain
the one generic name Turnix for the whole group.
In addition to the species met with within our limits, we
have T. pugnax from Java, (doubtfully distinct from our
T. plumbipes,) T, ocellata, fasciata and nigrescens from the
Philippines, T. rufilata from Macassar, T, rostrata and blakistoni
(the latter doubtfully distinct from pugnax) from China.
Besides these, there are three or four species from Africa, one of
which, T. sylvatica, is found also in Spain and Southern France
and Sicily, single specimens having also been recorded from
England and Italy.
Madagascar yields at least one species, Australia seven or
eight, and, in addition to those already referred to, two or three
others have been described from the islands lying between
Australia and South-East Asia, and doubtless many closely
affined species remain still to be discriminated from the islands
of the Archipelago.