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NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS. 



male, but is Braaller. Tlio tliird genus, JRpypodiua, has two species from New Guinea 

 and Waigu ; but little is known of tlirni. 



The second family of this sub-order is the CKArin.K, divided into three sul>families, 

 with between fifty and sixty species. They are inhabitatits of the tropical jiortions of 

 the New Worlil, anil although there is no important difference in their osteological 

 Btrueture and that of the Megapodidtp, they are entirely different in their economy 



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Kki. 110.— TaUgaUm lathaini, brusli-tiirkcy. 



and habits. While the megapodes .-ire terrestrial birds, ]iassing the greater portion of 

 their existence ujxm the ground, the Cracidic are essentially arboreal, build nests in 

 the trees, and incubate their eggs like true birds. 



The first suV(-f;imily, Oreophasiiia-, with its single sjiecies, Oreophasis derhi/aiuis, is 

 a native of Guatemala and the woods of the Volcan dc Fuego to a hei<'ht of 10,0U0 

 feet. It is apparently rare even in the localities it frequents, and not miich is known of 

 its h.ibits, beyond the fact that it frequents the u])per branches of the forest trees, 



