296 Allen's naturalist's library. 



Eggs. — Vary in number from eight to twelve, but a score or 

 more are sometimes found in one nest, probably the produce of 

 more than one female ; they are broad oval, slightly pointed at 

 the smaller end, generally brown, or olive-brown in colour, 

 more rarely bluish-green, uniform in tint, and with rather a 

 smooth polished shell. Average measurements, i'8 by 1*4 

 inch. 



Note. — The Andalucian Hemipode was included in the British List 

 many years ago. Two specimens are said to have been obtained in 

 Oxfordshire, and a third in Yorkshire. " No one," says Mr. Saunders, 

 "who knows how sedentary and local this species is, will believe it to be 

 a genuine visitor." 



The synonymy is as follows : — 



THE ANDALUCIAN HEMirODE, TURNIX SYLVATICA. 



Tetrao sylvatiais, Desfont. Mem. Acad. Sci. Paris, p. 500 (1789). 

 Turnix sylvaticus, Drefser, B. Eur. vii. p. 249, pi. 494 (1876) ; B. O. U. 



List Brit. B. p. 146 (1883); Saunders, ed. Yarrell's Brit. B. iii. 



p. 131 (1883); id. Man. Brit. B. p. 492, note (1889); Grant, Cat. 



B. Br't. Mus. xxii. p. 537 (1893) ; id. in Allen's Nat. Libr. xii. 



p. 270 (1896). 



