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The family PhasianidcE is especially noteworthy as containing 

 the birds most useful to man, as well as many remarkable for the 

 beauty of their plumage. Its eighty or ninety species are all Old 

 World except two (the Turkeys), and include the Guinea-fowls 

 (about ten species, confined to Africa and Madagascar), the 

 Jungle-fowls (four or five species, found in India and neighboring 

 islands), the true Pheasants (about forty species, nearly all con- 



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fined to Asia), the Turkeys (American, two species), the Trago- 

 pans. Eared-pheasants, Argus Pheasants, and the Peacock 

 Pheasants (all Asiatic, and numbering about thirty species). The 

 many striking forms, as the Jungle-fowls (ancestors of the domes- 

 tic fowls), the Tragopan, Impeyan, Reeves's, Elliot's, Lady Amherst, 

 Argus, Peacock, and other Pheasants — too numerous to mention 

 at length — may be seen in Cases O and P, and the Turkeys in 

 Cases D and I. 



