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CLASSIFIED INDEX. 169 



scutellated in front, in males mostly spurred ; hallux inserted some- 

 what high, insistent on the point, the anterior toes conjoined at base 

 by a small membrane ; cheeks or lateral parts of head unplumed, or 

 with tufts. 



Caccabis rufa (Perdix rufa, P. rubra, Tetrao rufus), Eed-legged 

 Partridge, I. 145 — 



Coturnix communis; (Perdix coturnix, Tetrao coturnix), Quail, I. 93 

 Perdue cinerea (Tetrao perdix), Partridge, II. 21 — 

 Phasianus colchicus, Pheasant, III. 157 — 



X FULICARI^E. 



Tibia naked ; neck and legs comparatively short ; head completely 

 feathered, or with a broad horny frontal plate ; bill not constricted in 

 the middle, rather shorter than head, straight and quite stout, or 

 much longer, regularly slender and decurved, with long nasal fossse ; 

 nostrils incompletely or not perforate; toes equalling or exceeding 

 the tarsi in length, simple or lobate ; wings short, rounded, concave, 

 with ten primaries ; tail rounded. 



RALLIDJE (BAILS). 

 Characters of the order. 

 Grex pratentit, Landrail, IV. 21 — 

 Fulica atra, Coot, II. 133 — 



Gallinida cliloropm (Fulica chloropus), Moorhen, Water-hen, 

 IV. 93 



Mallus aquations, Water Rail, II. 85 — 



X LIMICOL^]. 



Tibia bare of feathers for a variable (sometimes slight) distance 

 above heel-joint; legs commonly lengthened, sometimes excessively 

 so ; neck usually produced in corresponding ratio ; toes cleft, or united 

 for a short distance by one or two small basal webs ; hallux always 

 reduced or wanting; wings generally lengthened, pointed, and flat, 

 tail shorter than wing. 



CHARADRIIDM (PLOVERS). 



Bill short, weak at base, strong at tip ; nostrils in deep longitudinal 

 groove ; hallux wanting, or small and set high. 



