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Fig. 12. Argusianus argits. (From the group in the British Museum.) 



Order XIV. GALLING. 



The true Game-birds, the Grouse, Fowls, Peacocks, Pheasants, 

 Turkeys, Partridges, Quails, and Guinea-fowls, with Megapodes, 

 Curassows, and Guans, form a well-defined and easily recognizable 

 order. They have a stout bill, strong legs and feet, suited for 

 progress on the ground, a plump body and rounded wings, in which 

 the 5th secondary is present, and there are 10 primaries. There 

 is frequently a spur, sometimes more than one, on the tarsus in 

 males, and, in a few genera, in females also. The hallux is always 

 present; the nails are short, blunt, and but slightly curved. An 

 aftershaft is always developed to the body-feathers. The spinal 

 feather-tract is well defined on the neck and not forked on the 

 back. Oil-gland present, except in the genus Argusianus. 



The deep plantar tendons are joined by a fibrous vinciilum, but 



