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pedie Methodique,' 1790, the latter from Teraminck's ' Histoire des 

 Pigeons et Gallinaces,' 1815. But the right specific name is not so 

 clear; the oldest is ' sylvaticus,' of Desfontaines, in ' Memoires de 

 TAcademie des Sciences,' 1787, p. 500. But in extreme cases, and 

 where a name may propagate important errors, it is allowable to can- 

 cel the oldest name in favour of the next in point of date. Now 

 ' sylvaticus ' certainly gives a wrong impression of this desert bird, so 

 I suppose we may take ' Andalusicus ' of Gmelin, 1789, and call the 

 bird ' Turnix Andalusica.' " The only specimens of this rare and in- 

 teresting species hitherto found in Great Britain were killed by Mr. 

 R. Webb, gamekeeper to Miss Pennyston, of Cornwell, near Chip- 

 ping Norton, in this county. On the 29th of October, 1844, he shot 



Andalusian Hemipodes (Turnix Andalusica). 



the first of these, a male, in a field of standing barley, and took it to 

 Mr. Goatley, of Chipping Norton, by whom it was stuffed. A few 

 days after, near the same spot, he met with a second, probably the 

 female : this he also killed, but unfortunately it was so mutilated as to 

 render it quite unfit for preservation. The former specimen is now in 

 the collection of the Rev. H. Roundell, of Fringford, through whose 

 kindness we are enabled to offer the accompanying portrait of the bird. 



Great Bustard (Otis tarda). " This bird was occasionally met with 

 on the Lamborn downs, in Berkshire, more particularly in 1802, be- 

 fore they were enclosed ; since that time it has not been seen." — 

 Dr. T. 



Little Bustard (Otis Tetrax). A very fine female of this species 



