HEMIPODE 409 



Fam. TURNICID^. 



ANDALUSIAN HEMIPODE. Turnix sylvatica (Des- 

 fontaine). 



There being no evidence to show that this bird 

 has ever occuiTed in the British Islands, except 

 under very doubtful circumstances, the records re- 

 lating to its appearance have been dealt with in the 

 former part of this volume (p. 155). 



Order VII. ALECTORIDES 



Fam. OTIDID^. 



MACQUEEN'S BUSTARD. Otis macqueeni, Gray. 

 PI. 24, figs. 8, 8a. Length, 28 in. ; bill, 1-8 in. ; wing, 

 15*5 in. ; tarsus, 4*9 in. 



Hah. Resident in the Aralo-Caspian region, eastward 

 as far as Lake Balkash and the Altai Mountains ; crosses 

 the Pamir in September to winter in North-West India 

 until March. Common in Sind, Afghanistan, Baluchistan, 

 and Persia. 



One, Kirton Lindsey, Lincolnshire, Oct. 7, 1847: Roberts, 

 ZooL, 1848, pp. 1969, 2065 ; Newman, torn, cit, p. 2146 ; 

 Gould, Proc. Yorks. Phil. Soc, 1855, pp. 94-98. In 

 Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society at 

 York. A coloured plate from a drawing of this speci- 

 men by Miss Barker was published in the Naturalist, 

 1852, p. 89. 



One near Marske, North-East Yorkshire, Oct. 5, 1892 : 

 A^ai., 1892, p. 373; Zool, 1893, p. 21. Purchased for 

 the Newcastle Museum. 



