. A history of British birds . tail-coverts, yellowish-white;flank-feathers barred and mottled with brown on the edges,and broadly streaked with pale buff down the centre; legs,toes, and claws, pale brown. The whole length is seven inches. The wing from thecarpal joint to the end, four inches and a half: the firstfeather a very little longer than the second, and a quarterof an inch longer than the third; the form of the wing istherefore pointed. The female has no dark half-circular marks descendingdown the sides of the neck, nor the black patch in front;but the feathers on her breast are stron
. A history of British birds . tail-coverts, yellowish-white;flank-feathers barred and mottled with brown on the edges,and broadly streaked with pale buff down the centre; legs,toes, and claws, pale brown. The whole length is seven inches. The wing from thecarpal joint to the end, four inches and a half: the firstfeather a very little longer than the second, and a quarterof an inch longer than the third; the form of the wing istherefore pointed. The female has no dark half-circular marks descendingdown the sides of the neck, nor the black patch in front;but the feathers on her breast are strongly marked witha small dark spot on each side of the light straw-colouredshaft. The young birds of the year resemble the adult young males do not acquire the black patch on thefront of the neck till their second year. In the illustration which precedes this subject, the figurein the foreground represents the male bird ; that behindand a little to the left, the female. ANDALTJSIAN HEMIPODE, HEMIPODII. 131 -■^^.NX TuRNix siLVATiCA (Desfontaines*).THE ANDALUSIAN HEMIPODE. Heonipodius tachydromus. TuRNix, Bonnataref. — Beak moderate, slender, very compressed ; culmenelevated and curved towards the point. Nostrils lateral, linear, longitudinallycleft, partly closed by a membrane. Tarsus rather long. Toes three beforeentirely divided ; no posterior toe. Tail composed of weak yielding feathersclustered together, and concealed by the feathers of the back. Wings moderate,the first and second quill-feathers nearly equal, and the longest. The term Hemipodius, signifying Half-foot, was appliedgenerically by M. Temminck, in 1815, to several species ofquail-like birds, but with three toes only, which, from theirvery diminutive size were considered the pigmies among theGallinaceous birds: an order in which they have generally beenplaced. After the light thrown upon their anatomy by the * Tetrao sylvaticus, Desfontaines, Mem. de IAcad. Roy. des Sc, 1787, p. 500pi. x
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