278 EGGS OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



FAMILY TUBNICID/E 

 OB HEMIPODES. 



THE HEMIPODE. 



{Turnix andalusica .)* 

 Plate 59, Fig. 2. 



Three examples of this South European species have been said 

 to have been obtained in England, and, by some authors, the 

 species is admitted into the British List in consequence, but the 

 occurrences are admitted with doubt. This Hemipode, usually 

 called the " Andalusian Hemipode," is a resident in the extreme 

 south-east of Europe and North-eastern Africa, and is a very 

 unlikely bird to have visited this country, so that the specimens 

 recorded, even if they were actually shot in England, were most 

 probably escaped birds. 



The Hemipode makes no nest, but lays its eggs in a depression 

 in the ground. 



The eggs cannot easily be confused with those of any other 

 European bird, as they differ from the eggs of Game Birds in 

 the important fact that they are double-spotted, none of the eggs 

 of the latter birds ever having any grey underlying markings. 



Turnix sylvafica — Saunders, Manual, p. 402. 



