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R A SORES. TETRA ONIDJE. 



PLATE CLVIII. 



ANDALUSIAN HEMIPODE. 



TURNIX TACHYDROMA. 



We are indebted to Mr. Goatley, likewise, for the loan 

 of the specimen here represented, namely, the only known 

 British killed specimen of the Andalusian Hemipode. 



This bird was shot on the 29th of October, 1 844, by a game- 

 keeper, about three miles distant from Chipping Norton, in 

 Oxfordshire ; and some weeks after, another bird of the same 

 species was also shot by the same gamekeeper ; but, in conse- 

 quence of its head having been shot away, that specimen was 

 not preserved. It is supposed that these two birds were an 

 accidental pair that visited this country, for neither previous 

 to obtaining the first killed bird, nor after the death of the 

 second, has any other individual of the species been observed. 



TeminincFs account of the Andalusian Hemipode is as 

 follows : — It inhabits the south of Spain, Grenada, Anda- 

 lusia, and Arragon ; lives among grasses and underwood : its 

 food consists of small insects and small seeds. Its manner 

 of breeding is unknown, and consequently its eggs can neither 

 be figured nor described. 



In the fourth volume of the same author's work, he says 

 that the bird lives solitary, and does not migrate ; it even 

 seems not to leave the neighbourhood in which it is born. 

 This bird takes wing very unwillingly, and only flies, or 

 rather skims, above the level of the grass to a very short 



