130 EAEE VISITANTS. 



turned out in Norfolk by the late Earl of Leicester 

 (Stevenson, 'Birds of Norfolk,' vol. i. p. 436). In 

 1840 a number were liberated in the neighbourhood 

 of Windsor by his Royal Highness the late Prince 

 Consort (Clark Kennedy, ' Birds of Berks and Bucks,' 

 p. 182), In 1857 four brace were let loose in East 

 Lothian, and were subsequently reported to be thri- 

 ving (TurnbuU, ' Birds of East Lothian,' p. 42). 



In April, 1867, three males and four females were 

 set free by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales 

 at Sandringham (' The Field,' 26th Aug. 1871). Since 

 that time, the Maharajah Duleep Singh and other gen- 

 tlemen in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk have 

 turned out a good many. It is thus easy to account 

 for the appearance of the solitary specimens which 

 have been shot at various times in different localities, 

 and thereupon chronicled as rare British birds. 



Fam. TURNICID^. 



ANDALTJSIAN HEMIPODE. Turnix sylvatica (Des- 

 fontaines). 

 Hub. Southern Europe and Northern Africa. 



One, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, 29th Oct. 1844: Goatley, 



Ann. Nat. Hist. 1845 ; Zoologist, 1845, p. 872. 

 One near the same place shortly afterwards : Goatley, I. c. ; 



Matthews, Zoologist, 1849, p. 2599. 

 One, Fartown, near Huddersfield, 7th April, 1865 : Gould, 



P. Z. S. 1866, p. 210; 'Huddersfield, its Hist, and Nat. 



Hist.' p. 219. 



