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parts of the coast of England and Scotland, as 

 the Fern Islands, Puffin Island, in the Frith of 

 Forth, St. Kilda, &c. They dig holes in the earth, 

 from two to three feet in length, in which a single 

 white egg, of an oval form and about two inches 

 and a half long, by an inch and a half in breadth, is 

 deposited. Puffins are most observed on our coasts 

 J n winter, for although they breed much further 

 north than Britain, they proceed in autumn more 

 towards the equator. 



QUAIL, ANDALUSIAN. 



ANDALUSIAN HEMIPODE. 

 HEMIPODITJS TACHYDBOMUS, Temm. 



Mr. Thomas Goatley states in the u Annals of 

 Natural History/' Vol. 14, that in November, 1844, 

 he received a Quail having no back toe, and which 

 he found described in Latham's general history 

 as the Gibraltar Quail. It was shot by the 

 gamekeeper on the Cornwall estate in Oxfordshire, 

 about three miles from Chipping Norton, and 

 having been preserved was figured and described 

 by Farrell. Mr. Goatley also states that another 

 was afterwards killed near the same spot by 

 the same person, but was so mutilated as to be 

 unfit for preservation. The Andalusian Quail in- 

 habits sandy plains in Africa, <&c., but its habits, in 

 reference to nesting, &c., are imperfectly known. 



