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last mentioned, there is another which, containing a score of species 
(or perhaps more) often termed Quails, is of still greater im- 
portance in the eyes of the systematist. This is that comprehended 
by the genus Zurniz (HemrpopE). It is characteristic of this 
genus to want the hind toe; but the African Ortyxelus and 
the Australian Pedionomus which have been referred to its neigh- 
bourhood have four toes on each foot, and, though nothing is 
known of the anatomy or habits of the first, the second, after 
much discussion, has been decisively shewn by Dr. Gadow (Lee. 
Austral. Mus. 1891, pp. 205-211) to be closely allied to Turnax. 
QUAIL-DOVE and QUAIL-SNIPE, both book-names—the 
former for Starnenas cyanocephala a Cuban species which occasionally 
strays to the Florida Cays, and the latter for species of the 
Neotropical genus Thinocorys, one of the LimicoL&, by some writers 
referred to the Charadriidx (PLOVER, p. 733), and by others regarded 
as forming with d#tagis a self-standing Family. 
QUAIL-HAWK, the name given by colonists to the Falco 
nove-zealandix of Gmelin, by later writers referred to the genus 
Hieracidea or even placed apart as Harpe,' a fine Falconine bird, 
QuaiL-Hawk. (From Buller.) 
the precise affinities of which it would be very interesting to know, 
and one must hope that they may be determined before the 
extirpation of the form, since there seems to be a chance of its 
proving to bea less modified descendant of an ancient stock whence 
the true genus Falco and others have sprung, while on the other 
hand it may turn out to be only an early settler from Australia or 
elsewhere. Several authorities, and among them Sir Walter Buller, 
recognize a second species, the Falco ferox of Peale or brunneus of 
Gould, which seems scarcely to differ from the first but in its 
smaller size, its habit of frequenting the bush rather than the open, 
and its comparative abundance in the North Island, where the 
1 This name has long been preoccupied by conchologists, and that in the 
very form, Harpa, to which Dr. Sharpe (Cat. B. Br. Mus. i. p. 372) changed it. 
