GALLING: QUAILS. 189 



The Mountain Quail, of the mountain ranges of Oregon 

 and California, has long plumes, as in Fig. 221 ; and the 



FIG. 221. 



Mountain Quail, or Plumed Partridge, Oreortyx pictus, Baird. 



California Quail has a crest of lengthened feathers whose 

 shafts are in the same vertical plane, and which point 

 forward. 



SUB-SECTION VIII. 

 THE ORDER OF BREVIPEIOTES OR OSTRICHES. 



THESE are birds of great size, with the neck and legs 

 very long, and the wings rudimentary. They cannot fly, 

 but they run with great speed. The name Brevipennes is 

 from the Latin brevzs short, and penna, a feather or wing. 



The Brevipennes are the Ostriches of the deserts of 

 Africa and Asia, the Emeus or Cassowaries Ostrich-like 

 birds of the Indian Archipelago and of Australia, the 

 Apteryx of New Zealand, and various fossil forms. 



