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 Oriolus ocellatus Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), pt. 2, 88.

 Turnix ocellata Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 22, 548; Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 49; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 8.

Pu-gong gu′-bat, Manila.

Luzon (Everett, Heriot, Whitehead, McGregor, Worcester, Mearns).

Adult male.—Above mottled and spotted; head and sides of face black with roundish white spots and some rusty edging to feathers; rest of upper parts with large black centers to feathers whose edges are light buff and tips rusty; a slight trace of a chestnut nuchal collar; chin and middle of throat white; breast uniform rufous-chestnut; middle of belly dirty white; flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts dirty buff; primaries brown with pale edges; secondaries mottled and with wider, buff edges; coverts and tertials buff, each with a larger, roundish, black spot. “Iris white, upper mandible grayish brown at tip, pale yellow from nostrils back; lower mandible pale yellow, except tip light brown, legs and feet light straw-yellow, except joints and soles light brown; nails gray. Length, 165.” (Worcester.) A specimen from Benguet measures: Wing, 93; tail, 33; culmen, 15; tarsus, 25; middle toe with claw, 24.

Adult female.—Similar to male but larger; throat and chin black; chestnut of breast continued above as a wide nuchal collar. Iris white; bill pale yellow, grayish at tip; legs dull yellow; nails whitish. Length, 180; wing, 115; tail, 37; culmen, 17; tarsus, 29; middle toe with claw, 27.5. These measurements are from a specimen taken near Manila.

Young.—In young males the throat is more or less spotted with black and many of the breast-feathers are subterminally spotted with black. In young females the throat is more or less spotted with white.

This is much the largest of the Philippine button quails and appears to be confined to the Island of Luzon.