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(Sarcidiornis) Cotton Teal (Nettapus) Tree Ducks or Whistling Teal (Den- 

 drocjgna) Sheldrakes (Tadorna) Common Sheldrake Ruddy Sheldrake 

 The True Ducks (Anas) Mallard Dusky Duck Gadwall Habits of Ducks 

 Shoveller Ducks (Spatula) Pinteiled Ducks (Dafild) Teal (Querquedula)Wigeon 

 (Mareca) Summer and Mandarin Ducks (^dE#) Pochards and Scaup Ducks 

 (Fuligula) Golden Eye and Buffel Head (Clangula) Harlequin Duck (Cosmo- 

 netta) Long-Tailed Duck (Harelda) Eider Ducks (Somateria) Their Habits 



The Scoters (CEdemia) Stiff-Tailed Ducks (Erismatura) The Mergansers 

 (MergHs) Their Habits The Screamers (Order Palamedece, Family Palamedeidce), 2085 



CHAPTER XVI. THE PIGEONS AND SAND GROUSE, Order Columbce. 



Characteristics of Pigeons Green, Painted, and Fruit Pigeons (Family Treronidce} 

 Wedge-Tailed Green Pigeons (Sphenocercus) Other Genera (Vinago, Crocopus, 

 etc.) Painted Pigeons (Pttlopus, etc.) Wart Pigeons (Alectrcenas) and their Al- 

 lies Fruit Pigeons (Carpophaga, etc.) Wood, Long-Tailed, and Passenger Pi- 

 geons (Family Columbidce) Rock Dove and Allies (Columba) Stock Dove Wood 

 Pigeon Long-Tailed Pigeons (Turaccena) Cuckoo Pigeons (Macropygia) Al- 

 lied Genera Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes) The Ground Pigeons (Family Per- 

 isteridfz) Mourning Doves (Zenaidura, etc.) Galapagos Pigeons (Nesopelia) 

 White - Winged Doves (Melopelia) Turtledoves (Turtur) Allied American 

 Genera (Columbula, etc.) Cinnamon Dove (Haplopelia) Blood-Breasted Dove 

 (Phlogtznas) Wonga Wonga Dove (Leucosarcia) Blue-Bearded Cuban Dove 

 (Sturncenas) Cape Dove (^Ena) African Ground Dove (Ckalcopelia) Bronze- 

 Winged Doves (Chalcoptera) Australian Ground Doves (Pkaps) Harlequin 

 Dove (Histriophaps) Penciled Doves (Geophaps) Plumed Bronze- Winged Dove 

 (Lophophaps) Crested Bronze-Wing (Ocyphaps) Nicobar Pigeon (Catenas) 

 Crowned Pigeons (Family Gouridce) Tooth-Billed Pigeon (Family Didunculidce) 



Dodo and Solitaire (Family Dididce) The Sand Grouse (Family Pteroclidce) 

 Pallas's Sand Grouse (Syrrhaptes) Black-Bellied Sand Grouse (Pterocles) Pin- 

 Tailed Sand Grouse (Pteroclurus) Common Sand Grouse, .... 2129 



CHAPTER XVII. THE GAME BIRDS AND RAILS, Orders Gallince and Fulicarice 



Characteristics of Game Birds Grouse and Ptarmigan (Family Tetraonidce) True 

 Grouse and Ptarmigan (Lagopus) Red Grouse Willow Grouse Black Game 

 (Lyrurus) Capercaillie ( Tetrad) American Grouse (Canachites) Other Gen- 

 era Prairie Hens (Tympanuckus) Sage Grouse (Centrocercus) Sharp-Tailed 

 Grouse (Pedioc&tes) Ruffed Grouse (Bonasd) Hazel Hens (Tetrastes) Part- 

 ridges, Pheasants, Turkeys, and Guinea Fowls (Family Phasianidai) Snow Part- 

 ridges and Snow Cocks (Ler-uia and Tetrogallus) Red-Legged Partridges ( Cacca- 

 bis) Bonham's Partridge (Ammoperdix) Francolins (FrancoUnus) True Part- 

 ridges (Perdix) Allied Genera Tree Partridges (Arboricola) Wood Partridges 

 (Caloperdix, etc.) Quails (Coturnix) Bamboo Partridges (Bambusicola) Spur 

 Fowl (Galloper dix) Blood Pheasants (Ophrysia) Monals (Lophophorus) Fire- 

 backed Pheasants (A com us) Bulwer's Pheasant (Lobiophasis) Eared Pheasants 

 (Crossoptilum') Kalij Pheasants (Genn&us) Koklass Pheasants (Pucrasia) 

 True Pheasants (Phasianus) Golden and Amherst's Pheasants ( Chrysolophus) 

 Game Fowls (Gallus) Peacock Pheasants (Polyplectrum) Argus Pheasants 

 (Argusianus) Reinhard's Argus (ffeinhardins) Peafowl (Pavo) Guinea 

 Fowls (Numida, etc.) Vulture-like Guinea Fowl (Acryllium') Turkeys (Melea- 

 gris) American Partridges and Quails (OdontopkoritHz) The Megapodes and 

 Brush Turkeys (Family Megapodiidce) Megapodes (Megapodius) Brush Turkeys 

 (Talegallus, etc.) Maleo (Megacephalum) Curassows and Guans (Family Cra- 



