Buttonquails (Turnicidae)

Worcester's Buttonquail (Turnix worcesteri) - HBW 3, p. 58

French: Turnix de Worcester German: Worcesterlaufhühnchen Spanish: Torillo de Worcester

Taxonomy: Turnix worcesteri McGregor, 1904, probably Parañaque, Luzon.
Usually considered a separate species or conspecific with T. everetti, but both taxa recently proposed as races of T. pyrrhothorax; distinguished from latter by plumage and size. Monotypic.

Distribution: Luzon, N Philippines.