Ornith. [mod.L. (Bonnaterre, 1790), app. shortened from L. coturnix quail.] A genus of quail-like birds (also called Hemipodius: see HEMIPOD); the bush-quails.
1819. Stephens, in Shaw, Gen. Zool., XI. 388. Black-fronted Turnix…. Turnix with the forehead with three fasciæ. Ibid., 389. Black-necked Turnix.
1869. Gillmore, trans. Figuier’s Rept. & Birds (1870), 392. The Turnix are [sic] closely allied to the Quails.
