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KALLEGE—KEEL 



has much of the habits of a Lark, except that it does not soar and 

 has no song, uttering a cry which Levaillant syllabled '• qui vive ? " 



and Mr. Layard 



mewing. 



Macronyx. (After Swainson.) 



terms 



The curious similar- 

 ity in coloration, 

 which obtains be- 

 tween this form and 

 the American Stur- 

 nella, has been 

 already noticed (Ic- 

 terus) ; but it must 

 be understood that 

 whatever be the 

 true position of 

 Macronyx, the two 

 genera are not allied. Several English names have been suggested 

 for this bird, and one by which it is said to be called in the Cape 

 Colony is " Cut-throat Lark," from the deep orange colour of its 

 throat. Three other species of Macronyx are known — one, M. crocea, 

 having a yellow throat, and therefore still more closely resembling 

 Sturnella magna, being widely spread throughout Africa ; another, 

 M. flavicolUs, inhabiting Abyssinia and the neighbouring countries ; 

 and the fourth, M. ameliai, with a red throat, confined to the south- 

 eastern part of the continent. 



KALLEGE^ or KALIJ, the Anglo-Lidian name, applied to 

 about a dozen forms of Pheasant, constituting the genus Ewplocanius 

 (Gallophasis of some authors), among which the E. albicridatus of the 

 north-western Himalaya and the nearly-allied E. melanonotus of 

 Sikhim are those to which it properly belongs. Passing eastwards 

 they are represented by other forms, as E. horsfieldi in Assam, E. 

 lineatus in Burma and so on ; and, where the range of almost an 3^ 

 two of them is conterminous, so-called "hybrids" are observed. 

 Others which may be regarded as thoroughly good species inhabit 

 islands, as Sumatra, Borneo and even Formosa, while parts of China 

 produce the best-known of all, E. nydhemerus, the Silver Pheasant 

 of our aviaries, which was introduced to England in the first half 

 of the 1 8th century. 



KEA, see Nestor. 



KEEL, carina, or a'ista sterni, a medic-ventral outgrowth from 

 the two coalescent parts of the sternal cartilaginous plate. Itself 

 originally cartilaginous, it subsequently ossifies from the basal 

 region and from the anterior margin backwards, so as to form a 



^ Corrupted into "College Pheasant" (Yule and Burnell, Hohson-Jobson). 



