PIGEONS. 313 



flesh he describes from personal experience, as " much superior, 

 both in flavour and whiteness, to that of the partridge or pheasant. 

 They never perch on trees, as some writers have supposed, but 



Fig. 159.— Pentland's Tinamotis {Tinamotis Pentlandii). 



Hve entirely among herbage in the interior of the country." In 

 the Pampas Mr. Darwin met with two species as large as hen 

 pheasants. 



The type of this sub-family is — 



Pentland's Tinamotis ( Tinamotis Pentlandii). 



SECTION II. 

 COLUMB/E. 



The Second Section of the Gallinae conprehends a numerous 

 race of birds, which, however, constitute but one family,* 



* See "Animal Creation," page 339. 



