136 CARINA!^. 



Genus FRArJCOLINUS, Stephens '. 



The tarso-motatarsus (fig. 32) is moderately short, with the inner 

 ridge on the posterior surface slightly developed. The males have 

 one or occasionally two spurs. 



JFrautolimiS pictuS (Jardine & Selby -). 

 Syn. PercUx picta, Jardine & Selby ^. 



Hab. India. 



A. 91. The right tarso-metatarsus of a female ; from the Pleistocene 

 cavern-deposits of the Karnul district, Madras. Similar to 

 the specimen figured in the accompanying woodcut. Other 

 specimens from the same deposits are described and figured 

 by the writer in the ' Palaeontologia Indica,' ser.lO, vol. i. 

 pp. 52-53. Presented by the Director of the Geological 



Survey of India, 1885. 



Genus COTURIVIX, Bonnaterre *. 



In the short tarso-metatarsus there is no inner ridge on the 

 posterior surface, and the second trochlea is very short, not reaching 

 to the base of the third. The males have no spur. 



Coturnf)f nobaj-^talantlu.', Quoy & Gaimard'. 



The tarso-metatarsus is shorter and thicker than in C, communis. 

 Hah. New Zealand. 

 33239. The right tarso-metatarsus ; from the superficial deposits of 

 Waingongoro, North Island. 



Walter Mantell Collection. Purchased, about 1855. 



Genus PAL.ffiORTYX, Milne-Edwards I 



Includes Partridge-like birds, of which the type species has a 

 longer and less curved rostrum than in existing genera. The pro- 

 portions of the hind limb approximate to those of Perdix, but the 

 femur is relatively shorter. The tarso-metatarsus has no spur, its 



1 In Shaw's General Zoology, vol. xi. pt. 2, p. 316 (1819). 



^ Illustrations of Ornithology, vol, i. pi. 1 (1825). — Perdix. 



3 Loc. cit. 



* Tabl. Encycl. Method, vol. i. p. 216 (1790). 



" Voyage de I'Astr.— Zool. vol. i. p. 242 (1830). 



" Oiseaux Fossiles de la France, vol. ii. p. 217 (1869-71). 



