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ANDALUSIAN QUAIL. 



A1SDALUSIAN HEMIPODE. GIBRALTAR QUAIL. ANDALUSIAX 

 TURNIX. THREE-TOED QUAIL? 



Hemipodius tachydromus, GOULD. 



lunatus, TEMMINCK. 



Perdix Gibraltarica, LATHAM. 



Turnix tachydroma, MEYER. 



Hemipodius. HemipodlonA half-foot. Hemi Half. 



Pous. Podos A foot. Tachi/dromus Fast-running. Tachus 



Quick. DrdmeusA. runner. 



THIS Quail is found in North Africa, from Barbary to 

 Tripoli; it also occurs in Europe in various parts of the south 

 of Spain, and in Sicily and Italy. 



The 'Annals of Natural History,' in the fourteenth volume, 

 record the occurrence of an individual of this species, a male, 

 which was shot on the 29th. of October, 1844, at Corn well, 

 near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire; another, probably the 

 female, had previously been killed near the same spot. 



'They live on sterile sandy plains, and run with great 

 speed, seldom taking wing; ready to hide themselves on the 

 slightest appearance of danger, and are found with difficulty 

 among the herbage under which they conceal themselves.' 

 They are said not to go in flocks, to lie close, and rarely to 

 rise a second time if once put up. 



They feed on grain and seeds, and swallow some gravel to 

 aid the digestion of their food. 



Male; length, about six inches; bill, light yellowish brown, 

 the tip still paler; iris, hazel. Head on the sides, dull brown, 

 speckled with buff; on the crown, dark yellowish brown, with 

 a lighter streak down the middle, the feathers tipped with 

 rufous a sort of 'feather in its cap;' neck on the back and 



