Andalusian Tumi-:
Tumix africamis, Desfont. Mem. de l’Acad. des Sci., 1789, p. 500.
sylvaticus, Desf. ibid.
Tetrao gibraltaricus et T. andalusu-m, GrheL edit. Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 706
Turnix andalusica, Bona. Ency. Mcth. Om., part 1.
Perdix gibraltarica et P andalusica, Lath. Ind. Ora., vol. ii. p. 656.
Hemipodius tachydromm II. lunulattu, Temm. Man. d’Ora., 1816, pp. 314, 316
—----- :andatusictu, Bole, Isis, 1822, p. 558.
Ortygis andalusica. Key«, et Bias. Wirbelth. Eur., p. 66. flB
Tumix sylvatica, Desf., in Proe. of Zoet Soc., 1866, p. 210.
In the warmer portions of the Old Woffe
perhaps correctly, with the Gai&nace<e;
linger than those birds, and others mt
covies o r bevies; some have stout rather
in any other Gallinaceous birds o f the i
name implies, but three toes, while, as i
well-developed hind o n e ; they all have
arid and scrubby plains they frequent. '
the colouring and distinctnes
with little o r no nest. The
sportsmen and taken home
O f this group o f birds n>
Africa, one o f which, the
England; hence nri
under which it has a claim to be in
In the month o f November 184
there occurs a group of small birds which have l>een clw
» size they resemble the Quails; some o f the species an
eh smaller. They are all solitary in their habits, and never go in
heavy bills, while in others this organ is slender and longer than
ante size. These, the Turnices or Hemipodes, have, as the latter
well known, the Quails, Partridges, &c. have a fourth generally
short rounded wings, and rise with a loud whirring noise from the
¡’he females, which are by far the largest in size, and the finest in
o f their awirtrings, invariably lay four eggs in a slight depression of the ground,
flesh is dry and not very good for the table, although' they are often pocketed bv
i buslnt»«*.
\ the necess
Us tehabst India, China, the Philippines, Java, and Austef!
hated i» oar avifauna a re briefly these —
Mr. Thomas Goatley, o f Chipping Norton, in O iin-dshire,
munication to the ‘ Annals and Magazine o f Natural History/ in which he stated that
a bird which appeared to be new to this country,—a Quail having no hind toe, and not i
m any work on British ornithology to which he had access, but which appeared t<
description o f PrrdLv ffibraltaricns. The bird was shot on the Cornwall estate, about tlirt
( ’hipping Norton, in a field o f barley, on the 29th o f the previous October, after which dat
near the same spot by the same person ; but its head was shot oft, a
had isi '•?# gpgMiffd two o r three htisks o f barley, several small seeds Bite charlock,
gravel, and vjtvy Upfe fa wa* considerably injured by the sh o t; but Mr. Goalie« 1
, and so
mi killed
considered it a t utppjwf#. 4m m
occurrence o f which #* Cfefllfcl
989 of the same volume | tt mm - 0 $
to Mr.’ Yarroll’s ‘ History of
bird in our islands until the year
Huddersfield Naturalists’ Society heM ;»|
Huddersfield. This specimen Mr. Beaui
n o te:— “ The bird was purchased alive h
Irishmen'on the 7th o f April, 1865, nea
of one of the men, and thinking it a n
young Partridge.”
Considerable confusion appears to exit
it was characterized as two distinct sp
this form is found in Europe and on the
considerable numbers in all the environs «
It appears a t the same time as the Comou
about the breeding-time disappears for
ntioned, he believed,
agree with Latham’s
miles from
another was
it was otherwise so mutilated
the former being a male. It
Is and justly
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