476 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 
terms  ‘“mewing.” 
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 Macronyz are known—one, M. crocea, 
having a yellow throat, and therefore still more closely resembling 
Sturnella magna, being widely spread throughout Africa ; another, 
M. flavicollis, inhabiting Abyssinia and the neighbouring countries ; 
and the fourth, JZ. amelix, with a red throat, confined to the south- 
eastern part of the continent. 
KALLEGE?! or KALIJ, the Anglo-Indian name, applied to 
about a dozen forms of PHEASANT, constituting the genus Huplocamus 
(Gallophasis of some authors), among which the FZ. albicristatus of the 
north-western Himalaya and the nearly-allied FE. melanonotus of 
Sikhim are those to which it properly belongs. Passing eastwards 
they are represented by other forms, as ZL. horsfieldi in Assam, LE. 
lineatus in Burma and so on; and, where the range of almost any 
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, H. nycthemerus, the Silver Pheasant 
of our aviaries, which was introduced to England in the first half 
of the 18th century. 
Macronyx. (After Swainson.) 
KEA, see NESTOR. 
KEEL, carina, or crista sterni, a medio-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 
1 Corrupted into ‘‘ College Pheasant” (Yule and Burnell, Hobson-Jobson). 
