AUTHOR'S PREFACE. 



The second volume of this work contains an account of all the 

 remaining species of the Order Gallinae or True Game-Birds, 

 as well as that curious and aberrant form the Hoatzin, and the 

 Bustard-Quails. 



The subject has been treated in exactly the same way as in 

 the previous volume, and the short descriptions of the adult 

 male and female have in almost every instance been carefully 

 compared and revised with the specimens in the British 

 Museum, where the collection of Game-Birds is unusually fine 

 and perfect. Only nine of the species mentioned in the first 

 volume are not represented in the above collection, six of the 

 desiderata being Francolins, while of the 221 species treated of 

 in the present volume, though a like number are wanting, two 

 or three of these appear to be doubtfully distinct species. 



Two birds are described for the first time in this volume : 

 Whitehead's Bustard-Quail {Turnix whiteheadi), an extremely 

 interesting and distinct new form met with in the neighbour- 

 hood of Manila, and Cholmley's See-See Partridge, from the 

 Soudan and African shores of the Red Sea, a description of 

 them both being given in the Appendix. 



W. R. OGILVIE-GRANT. 



