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YOUNG 



OP THB 



RASORES AND GRALLATORES. 

 PLATE XXXIV. 



ON this Plate we have endeavoured to represent the 

 young of these two orders or groups of birds. Leav- 

 ing the Incessorial birds, we entered the first by 

 means of the Pigeons, where, among the greater 

 part, the young were still hatched unfledged^ and 

 were fed for some time in the nest. In all the other 

 families, the young run almost immediately after 

 exclusion from the egg, and, in consequence, are 

 protected by a close and ample soft down. In the 

 greater part of the Rasores, the colours at this time 

 are shades of brown, chestnut, and yellow, as in- 

 stanced in the Partridge. In the Ardeadw^ it is 

 shades of grey and white. In the Scolopacidce or 

 Snipes, and Charadriadce or Plovers, it is also shades 

 of brown, chestnut, yellow, or grey^ like the middle 

 figure of the young Curlew ; while in the 



