134 TURNICID^. 



vol. iv. plate 264. Mr. Gould, to whom we have shewn 

 Mr. Goatley's letter, considers this one of the most interest- 

 ing additions to the British Fauna that has occurred for 

 many years. — Ed.] " 



This specimen was drawn from and engraved for the 

 present work. 



In the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society ' for 1866, 

 p. 210, it is recorded that the late Mr. Gould exhibited a 

 specimen of the Andalusian Hemipode which had been taken 

 near Huddersfield, and which had been sent to him for 

 inspection by the possessor, Mr. Alfred Beaumont. In ' The 

 Birds of Great Britain,' vol. iv., Mr. Gould adds that the 

 specimen was accompanied by the following note : — " The 

 bird was purchased alive by the son of S. D. Mosley, a bird- 

 stuffer of Huddersfield, from two Irishmen, on the 7tli of 

 April, 1865, near the Fartown bar on the Bradford Eoad. 

 He saw it in the hand of one of the men, and thinking it a 

 novelty gave them sixpence for it ; the Irishmen regarded it 

 as a young Partridge." 



Nothing can be more circumstantial than the above state- 

 ments, and, failing disproof, there seems no alternative but 

 to continue to include this species in the list of British 

 birds. 



The earliest information respecting the nesting of the 

 Andalusian Hemipode was given in * The Ibis * for 1859, 

 p. 80, pi. ii., in which the late Mr. W. C. Hewitson figured 

 two of its eggs, with those of other rarities, brought from 

 Algeria by Canon Tristram, who contributed a note stating 

 that they were taken by Captain Loche of the French army 

 in Kobah Forest, on July 11th, 1857. The nest was said to 

 have contained seven eggs, nearly fresh, and was placed on 

 the ground in the midst of a dense thicket of underwood. 

 Colonel Irby* says that owing to the skulking habits of the 

 birds, the nest is exceedingly difficult to obtain, but four 

 eggs slightly incubated were brought to him from the neigh- 

 bourhood of San Roque on the 6th July, 1869 ; the nest 

 being described by the finder as consisting of a few bits of 



* Ornithology of the Straits of Clihraltar, p. 141. 



