CONTENTS 



Order COLUMB^. 



PAGR 



Wood-Pigeon. Cohimba palumhus . . « . . 258 



Stock-Dove. Columba cenas . , . , , , . 261 



Rock-Dove. Columha livia ...... 261 



TuBTLE-DovE. Ticrtur comtnunis . . . , , , 262 



Passenger Pigeon. Ectopistes migratorius .... 264 



Order PTEROCLETES. 



Pallas's Saud-Grouse. Syrrhaptes paradoxus . , , , 264 



Order GALLING. 



Pheasakt. Phasianus colchicus ....,, 264 



Red-legged Parteidge. Caccahis rufa , . . . . 265 



Barbary Partridge. Caccahis petrosa ..... 266 



Pabtkidge. Perdix cinerea . . . . , , . 267 



QuATL. Coticrnix communis ...... 269 



Ptabmigan. Lagopus 7nutus . . , . . , . 270 



Red Gbouse. Lagopus scoticus ...... 272 



Black Gbouse. Tetrao tetrix . . . » . . 273 



Capebcaillie. Tetrao urogallus ...... 275 



Order FULICARLS. 



Watee-Rail. Ballus aquaticus . . . , . . 277 



Spotted Cbake. Porzana maruetta ■ . . , . 277 



Baillon's Crake. Porzana hailloni . . . . . . 278 



Little Crake. Porzana j^arva ...... 278 



CoBNCRAKE. Crex prate >isis . ... . . . . 278 



MooBHEN. Gallinula chloropus ...... 279 



Coot. Fulica atra ........ 280 



Order ALECTORIDES. 



Crane. Grus communis ....... 281 



Great Bustard. Otis tarda . . . . . . . 281 



Little Bustard. Otis tetrax ...... 281 



Macqueen's Bustard. Otis macqueeni . . • . . 281 



Order LIMICOL^. 



Stone-Cxjrlew. (Edicnemus scolopax . , , . . 282 



Collared Pratincole. Glareola pratiyicola .... 284 



Cream-coloured Courser. Cursorius gallicus , . . . 284 



Golden Ploveb. Charadrius pluvialis .... 284 



Eastern Golden Plover. Charadrius fulvua . . • . - 286 



Gbey Ploveb. Squatarola helvetica . , • . 286 



Kentish Plover, ^gialitis cantiana , . . , 287 



