Hottentot (racial term) in an ethnic sense. From the eighteenth century onwards, the term "hottentot" was also a term of abuse without a specific ethnic sense, comparable to "barbarian" or "cannibal". In its ethnic sense, it had developed connotations of savagery and primitivism soon already in the seventeenth century: colonial depictions of the Hottentots (Khoikhoi) in the seventeenth to eighteenth century were characterized by savagery, often suggestive of cannibalism or the consumption of raw flesh, physiological features such as steatopygia and elongated labia perceived as primitive or "simian"; and a perception of the click sounds in the Khoikhoi languages as "bestial". Thus it
Hottentot buttonquail Hottentot buttonquail The Hottentot buttonquail ("Turnix hottentottus") is a bird in the family Turnicidae formerly considered conspecific with the black-rumped buttonquail ("Turnix nanus"). The species is endemic to South Africa and is found along the south coast from Cape town to Algoa Bay in Eastern Cape province. There are no subspecies. A 1994 survey resulted in an estimate of c.310-420 birds in of montane fynbos habitat in Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve. The lack of records suggest that this may be an overestimate, and extrapolation of a much lower density estimate from a 1990 study would result in a