146 RALLID^K. 



Harvie-Brown, 'The Capercaillie in Scotland/ 1879). It 



extends through the pine-forests of Northern and Central 

 Europe. 



Order HEMIPODII. 

 Genus TURNIX, Bonnaterre, Encyl. Meth. i. p. 5 (1790). 



Turnix, shortened from Coturnix, q. v., to show it was a mutilated form, 

 wanting the hind toe. 



Turnix sylvatica. ANDALUSIAN HEMIPODE. 



Tetrao sylvaticus, Desfont aines, Mem. de FAcad. 

 Roy. des Sciences, Paris, p. 500 (1789). 



Turnix afrieanus, Gray, p. 128. 



Hemipodius tachydromus, Yarr. ed. 2 ii. p. 408 ; id. ed. 3, 



ii. p. 421. 



Turnix africanus, Gould, iv. pi. 16. 

 Turnix sylvatica, Harting, p. 130; Dresser, vii. p. 249; 



Saunders, iii. p. 131. 



Sylvatica = found in woods, silva. 



Three examples are said to have been obtained in England. 

 It is a local resident in Southern Spain, Sicily, and North 

 Africa. 



Order FULICARIJE. 



Family RALLID^E. 



Genus RALLUS, Linnceus, S. N. i. p. 261 (1766). 



Ballus, the latinized form of the French Bale (spelt Basle in Belon, 1555) 

 our Bail, Dutch Bal ; akin to rattle. / 



Rallus aquaticus. 



Rallus aquaticus, Linnceus, S. N. i. p. 262 (1766). 



Rallus aquaticus, Naum. ix. p. 472 ; Macg. iv. p. 521 ; Hewit- 

 son, p. 373; Gray, p. 177; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 110; 



