Sa he me i 2 
Scientific Notices. 275 
tail are so imperfect as to prevent me from deciding with certainty the 
group to which it belongs. Its bill is more that of the genus Platycercus 
than Palgornis; but a drawing now in my possession, which was said 
to have been taken from the bird when in a perfect state of plumage, 
gives it the tail of Paleornis, On this authority I provisionally place 
it in that group. I have seen a second specimen agreeing with the 
individual described; but I have not been able to ascertain the locality 
of either. [I should not be surprized if they should be found 
eventually to be females of some described species; their plumage being 
of that indistinct character which marks the females of some of the 
species of the two allied groups above mentioned, 
COLUMBA SPILOPTERA. Capite posteriori, dorso, alarumque tec- 
tricibus pallidé brunnescenti-rubris, his guttis albis gracilibus notatis ; 
fronte, corporeque subtus plumbescenti-canis; guld, crissoque albis ; 
remigum. pogoniis internis basi rufis; pedibus flavis. 
Longitudo corporis 5} unc. 
Habitat in Australia, 
Ortyx MonTEezumMz&. Capite posteriore, dorso, alisque brunneis, 
plumis in medio striis rufis ad latera fasciis nigris notatis ; fronte, guld, 
crisso, corporisque lateribus nigris, his albo-guttatis; regione cirewm- 
oculari, strid utrinque sub rictu, alterd utrinque ad frontem circuloque 
a supercilio ad pectus descendente, albis; abdomine medio castaneo. 
Magnitudo Ortygis Californiani. 
Habitat in Mexico. In Museo Soc. Zool. 
OrTyx squaMaTus. Corpore plumbescenti-cano, interscapulio pec- 
toreque dilutioribus, horum plumis circulo gracili brunneo ad apicem 
cinctis; criste occipitalis apice, guld, abdomine medio, crisso, striis- 
que abdominis laterum rufescenti-albis. 
Magnitudo Ortygis Californiani. 
Habitat in Mexico, In Museo Soc. Zool. 
