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The Andalusian Hemipode, Turnix andalusica*, lias been included in 

 the British list by several ornithologists. Two examples are said to have 

 been shot by a gamekeeper near Chipping Norton, in Oxfordshire, one on 

 the 29th of October 1844, and the other shortly afterwards (Goatley, Ann. 

 Nat. Hist. xiv. 1845, p. 459; and Newman, ^Zoologist,' 1845, p. 87.2). 

 A third example is said to have been bought of two Irishmen on the 7tli of 

 April 1865, one of whom caught it alive, by the son of Mr. Mosley, a 

 bird-stuffer of Huddersfield (Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 186G, p. 210). 



This species is a resident in Southern Portugal, Southern Spain, Sicily, 

 Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, and is very unlikely to have visited 

 this country. As this is a bird which is often kept in confinement, there 

 cannot be miich doubt that the specimens obtained in this country have 

 escaped from an aviary. It is somewhat less than the Common Quail, 

 to which it bears some resemblance in the style of its coloration, but 

 may at once be distinguished by the absence of the hind toe. The egg of 

 this bird cannot easily be confused with that of any other European bird ; 

 it differs from the eggs of the Game Birds in the important fact that it 

 possesses two kinds of spots, none of the eggs of the latter birds ever 

 having any pale grey underlying markings. 



* TURNIX ANDALUSICA. 

 ANDALUSIAN HEMIPODE. 



(Plate 20.) 



Tetrao sylvaticus, Besf. Mem. de I' Ac. Roy. des Sc. 1787, p. 500, pi. xiii. 



Tetrao oibraltaricus, ] ^ , „ ,^ . „^^ ,, _„„, 

 „ , -, 1 . (■ Gmel. Sust. Nat. i. p. 760 (1788). 



letrao audalusicus, J "^ r \ / 



Perdix gibraltarica (G'wie/.) 1 t ? r. •• ckc^ n^c^rw 



-^ ,.-,■, . , r-, ,N '^ Lath. Ind. Oni. u. p. 056 (l/UO). 

 Perdix andalusica {Gmel.), \ 



Turnix africanus, j 



Turnix gibraltarica {Gmel.)A Bonnat. Tall. Encycl. et Meth. i. pp. 6, 7 (1790). 



Turnix andalusica {Gmel.), ) 



Ortygis gibraltaricus {Gmel.), Illiger, Frodr. p. 243 (1811). 



Hemipodius tacbydromus, 1 . ^ , ... ^^^ „r.r^ toic\ 



„ .^ T 1 f '} Temm. Pig. et Gal. iii. pp. G2G, 629 (1815). 



Hemipodius lunatus, | *^ n. i \ 



Ortygis andalusica {Gmel.), Keys. u. Bias. IVirh. Eur. p. Ixvi (1840). 



Turnix albigularis, 31alh. Fuune Orn. de VAly. p. 20 (1855). 



Turnix sylvaticus {Desf.), Bona^). Cat. Parzud. p. 13 (1856). 



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