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a.tj,en’s naturalist’s library. 
Eggs. — Vary in number from eight to twelve, but a score or 
more are sometimes found in one nest, probably the produce of 
more than one female ; they are broad oval, slightly pointed at 
the smaller end, generally brown, or olive-brown in colour, 
more rarely bluish-green, uniform in tint, and with rather a 
smooth polished shell. Average mea.surements, i'8 by i ’4 
inch. 
No'I'E. — The Andalucian Ilemipode was included in the British List 
many years ago. Two specimens are said to have been obtained in 
Oxfordshire, and a third in Yorkshire. “ No one,” says Mr. Saunders, 
“who knows how sedentary and local this species is, will believe it to be 
a genuine visitor.” 
The synonymy is as follows : — 
THE ANDALUCIAN HEMIPODE. TURNIX SYLVATICA. 
7 'etrao sylvaticus, Desfont. Mem. Acad. Sci. Paris, p. 500 (17S9). 
Turnix sylvaticus. Dresser, B. Eur. vii. p. 249, pi. 494 (1876) ; B. O. U. 
List Brit. B. p. 146 (1883); Saunders, ed. Yarrell’s Brit. B. iii. 
p. 131 (1883); id. Man. Brit. B. p. 492, note (1889); Grant, Cat. 
B. Br’t. Mus. xxii. p. 537 (1893) ; id. in Allen’s Nat. Libr. xii. 
p. 270 (1896). 
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