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ground, mottled and clouded in some cases with red 

 brown, and in others spotted with daik brown spots, 

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



ORDER— HEMIPODII. 



FAMILY.— TURNICID^. 



ANDALUSIAN HEMIPODE— ( T^irnix sylvatica ; 

 formerly, Hemipodius tachydromus). 



Some three or four examples have been met with 

 in Britain. 



ORDER. — FULICARIJ3. 

 FAMILY.— RALLID^. 



^ A T L AND-R AIL— ( Crex pratensis) . 



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 embracing what are usually called the eastern 

 counties. Nor 3^et in Herefordshire. But the note in 

 question has been sufficiently familiar to me for the 

 last fifty years, and here in North Yorkshire I hear 



