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Order IX. IIEMIPODII. 



Maxiilo-palatiues not coalesced with one another or -with the 

 vomer; nasals schizorhinal ; dorsal vertebrae heteroca4ous ; sternum 

 with a deep notch on each side of the posterior margin, about two- 

 thirds of the length of the entire sternum; episternum well-deve- 

 loped, incompletely perforated to receive the bases of the coracoids, 

 which are separated by a thin bony septum. 



Bill like that of the Gallinae, but often not so strongly developed. 



Peet generally with three toes only, the hallux being absent 

 except in Pedionomus. 



Oil-gland tufted. 



The spinal feather-tract does not reach the neck, but the three 

 others do. 



No bastard secondary. Pifth cubital remex present. 



Young born covered with down and able to run soon after they 

 are hatched. 



Eggs double-spotted and three to five in number. 



Nest none. 



The female is always larger and the plumage almost alwaj's more 

 handsome than that of the male, and the latter in the majority of 

 species, if not in all, incubates the eggs and tends the j'oung. 



Family I. TURNICID.E. 



Keij to the Genera. 



A. Hind toe absent Trnxix, p. o26. 



U. Iliud tue present Pedionosius, p. 554. 



1. TURNIX*. 



Type. 



Turnix, Bonnat. Tabl. Encycl. Metli. i. pp. Ixxxii, 5 



(1790) T. Pvlvatica. 



Tridactylus, Lacep. Mem. Instit. p. 512 (1800-1) . . T. sylvatica. 



Ortvsis, Illiger, Prodi: Syst. Mamni. et Av. p. 242 



(1811) T. sylvatica. 



riemipodius, Tenun. Man. d'Oi-n. p. 313 (1815) : id. 



Ply. ft Gall. iii. p. 610 (1815) T. nlgricollis. 



* Doubtful species : — 



1. Turnix, sp. 



Ilemipodius tlioracicus. Bosnih. (iiec Tonm.) Naf. Tijd. Ned. Iiid. xxv. 



p. 253 (18B3) ; id. J.f. 0. 18G4, p. 135 [part., Waigiou]. 

 Turnix ocellata, Salmd. Orn. Pap. iii. p. 2o9 (1882). 



