358 AYES. 



It is impossible to avoid separnting from the whoh jeuus Tetrao 

 the 



Tridactyles, Lacep. Kemipodius, Tern., 



In which the thumb is wanting, and whose compressed beak forms 

 a little projection under the lower mandible. They cannot, how- 

 ever, be properly classed until their anatomy is better known. They 

 are polygamous, and inhabit sandy districts. Some of them^ the 



TuRNix, Bonnat. -Ortygis, Illig. 



Have still all the appearance of Quailsj their toes are completely 

 separated down to the very base, and are without the small mem- 

 branes. 



The natives of Java use one species for fighting, as Cocks are used 

 in Englandj it is the Hemip. pugnax, T., Col. 602.(1) Others, such 

 as the 



Syrrhaptes, Illig., 



Are so far removed from the general type of the Gallinaceoe, that 

 we are tempted to doubt the propriety of placing them in this order. 

 Their short tarsi are covered with feathers as well as the toes, which 

 are also very short and partly unitedj their wings are extremely long 

 and pointed. 



One species only is known, and that is from the deserts of 

 central Asia Tetrao pa7-adoxus. Pall., Voy., Fr. Trans. 8vo, 

 tom. Ill, pi. 1, page 18; Vieill. Galer., pi. 222^ the Hetero- 

 clite, Tem., Col., pi. 95. 



Odontophorus rufus, Vieill. Galer. pi. ccxi, which is not a Tinamou, p.s Gmelin 

 asserts. Among those the size of the Quail : Tetrao mexicunus, Enl. 149, Frisch. II. 

 the same as marylandiais, Albin. T, xxviii, and as virginianus, or Perdix horealis, 

 Vieill. Galer. 2U;Tetr. Falklandkus, Enl., 222\Tetr. cristahis, Enl. 126, f. 1; 

 the Colin Sonnini {Perd. Sonnini, T.) Col. 75, and Jour, de Phys., II, 217, and pi. 

 2; the Colin a aigrette de Californie, Tetr. californius, Sh., Nat. Misc. IX, pi. 345, 

 and Atl. Voy. de la Peyrouse, pi. xxxvi; the Perd. rousse-gorge {Perd. camhayen- 

 sis, Tem.) Col. 447; Perd. australis, Vieill. Gal. 215. 



(I) Add Tetrao nigricollis, Enl. 171; Tetr. andalusicus. Lath., Syn. II, part 2, 

 fig. of the title page; Tetr. luzoniensis, Sonn. Voy. I, pi. xxiii; Hemipodius ni- 

 grifrons, Tem. Ill, 610, and Vieill. Gal. 21%; Hemip. thoracicus, Tem. Ill, 622, or 

 Turnixmaculatus, Vieill. Gal. pi. 217; Hemip. Meiffrenii, T. Col. 60, 1, of which 

 Vieill., Gal. 300, makes his genus Tokticelle, and places it among the Waders, 

 masmuch as the lower part of the tibia is without feathers; tlie Hemip. nivosus. 

 Swains. Zool. 111., 163, must also belong to it; the Tetr.suscitator, ov Reveil-matin 

 of Java is also a Turnix. See Uontius, Med. Ind. p. 65. 



