DUT HOKS ) PREPACE. 
THE second volume of this work contains an account of all the 
remaining species of the Order Gallinz or True Game-Birds, 
as well as that curious and aberrant form the Hoatzin, and the 
Bustard-Quails. 
The subject has been treated in exactly the same way as in 
the previous volume, and the short descriptions of the adult 
male and female have in almost every instance been carefully 
compared and revised with the specimens in the British 
Museum, where the collection of Game-Birds is unusually fine 
and perfect. Only nine of the species mentioned in the first 
volume are not represented in the above collection, six of the 
desiderata being Francolins, while of the 221 species treated of 
in the present volume, though a like number are wanting, two 
or three of these appear to be doubtfully distinct species. 
Two birds are described for the first time in this volume: 
Whitehead’s Bustard-Quail (Zurnix whitehead:), an extremely 
interesting and distinct new form met with in the neighbour- 
hood of Manila, and Cholmley’s See-See Partridge, from the 
Soudan and African shores of the Red Sea, a description of 
them both being given in the Appendix. 
W. R. OGILVIE-GRANT. 
