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ground, mottled and clouded in some cases with red 

 brown, and in others spotted with dark brown spots, 

 some of considerable size. — Fig. 8, plate VI 



ORDER.— HEMIPODIL 



FAMILY.— TURNICIDiE. 



ANDALUSIAN HEMIPODE— (r?/r;2^:r sylvatica ; 

 formerly, Hciiiipodms tachydroviiis). 



Some three or four examples have been met with 

 in Britain. 



ORDER. — FU Lie ARIiE. 



FAMILY.— RALLID^. 



LAND-RAIL — ( Crex prat en sis) . 

 Corn Crake, Meadow Crake, Dakerhen. — This bird 

 is found in most parts of the kingdom, though for the 

 most part in no great abundance anywhere, in the 

 earlier months of the autumn. In most of the northern 

 parts it breeds annually, but I do not remember ever 

 hearing its breeding note while I was a dweller in the 

 district endjracnig what are usually called the eastern 

 counties. Nor yet in Herefordshire. But the note in 

 question has been sufficiently familiar to me for the 

 last lifty years, and here in North Yorksliire I hear 



