LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



HECK'S CURASSOW FEEDING YOUNG BIRD, WHICH HAS 

 THE PLUMAGE OF THE HENS OF THE GLOBOSE 

 CURASSOW, ITS FATHER'S SPECIES . Frontispiece 



By permission of the Avicultural Society. 



FACING PACK 



A TUREIT BELONGING TO MR H. P. SCATLIFF . 92 



From " The Modern Turbit" published by " The Feathered World" 

 London. 



YELLOW-RUMPED AND CHESTNUT-BREASTED FINCHES, 



WITH SPECIMENS IN TRANSITIONAL STATE . 98 



On the left, the yellow-rumped finch ; on the right, the chest- 

 nut-breasted ; birds in state of change in the middle. 



By permission of the Avicultural Society. 



MALE AMHERST PHEASANT . . . .122 



The chief colours of this species (Chrysolophus amhcrstia) are 

 white and metallic green, so that it is very different in appear- 

 ance from its near ally the gold pheasant. 



HARLEQUIN QUAIL (Coturnix delegorguei) . . 124 



By permission of the Avicultural Society. 



RAIN QUAIL (Coturnix coromandelicd) . . 124 



The markings on the throats of these quails are of the type 

 usually put down as " recognition marks," but as the Harlequin 

 Quail is African and the Rain Quail Indian, the two species 

 cannot possibly interbreed. The pattern, then, can have no 

 "recognition " significance. 



By permission of the Avicultural Society 



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