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(Turtur) Allied American Genera (Columbula, etc.) Cinnamon-Dove (Haplopelia) 

 Blood-Breasted Dove (Phlogcenas) Wonga-Wonga Dove (Leucosarcia) Blue-Bearded 

 Cuban Dove (Sturncenas) Cape Dove (sEna} African Ground-Dove (Chalcopelia) 

 Bronze - Winged Doves (Chakoptera) Australian Ground - Doves (Phaps) 

 Harlequin -Dove (Histriophaps) Pencilled Doves (Geophaps) Plumed Bronze- 

 Winged Dove (Lophophaps) Crested Bronze - Wing (Ocyphaps) Nicobar Pigeon 

 (Catenas) Crowned Pigeons (Family Gouridcv) 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, . . 363 



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



Characteristics of Game-BirdsGrouse and Ptarmigan (Family Tetraonidce) True Grouse 

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

 Capercaillie (Tetrao) American Grouse (Canachites) Other Genera Prairie-Hens 

 (Tympanuchus)S3ige Grouse (Gentrocercus) Sharp-Tailed Grouse (Pedioccetes) Ruffed 

 Grouse (Bonasa) Hazel- Hens (Tetrastes) Partridges, Pheasants, Turkeys, and Guinea- 

 Fowls (Family Phasianidce) Snow - Partridges and Snow - Cocks (Lerwa and 

 Tetrogallus) Red-Legged Partridges (Caccabis) Bonham's Partridge (Ammoperdix) 



Francolins (Francolinus) True Partridges (Perdix) Allied Genera Tree- Partridges 



(A rboricola) Wood - Partridges (Caloperdix, etc.) Quails (Coturnix) Bamboo- 

 Partridges (Bambusicola) Spur-Fowl (Galloperdix) Blood- Pheasants (Ophrysia) 

 Monals (Lophophorus) Fire-Backed Pheasants (Acomus) Bulwer's Pheasant (Lobio- 

 phasis) Eared Pheasants (Crossoptilum) Kalij Pheasants (Gennceus) Koklass 

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

 (Chrysolophus) Game-Fowls (Gallus) Peacock- Pheasants (Poly plectrum} Argus 

 Pheasants (Argusianus) Reinhard's Argus (Reinhardius) Peafowl (Pavo) Guinea- 

 Fowls (Numida y etc.) Vulture - like Guinea-Fowl (Acryllium) Turkeys (Meleagris) 

 American Partridges and Quails (Odontophorince) The Megapodes and Brush- 

 Turkeys (Family Megapodiidce) Megapodes (Megapodius) Brush-Turkeys (Talegallus, 

 etc.) Maleo (Megacephaluni) Curassows and Guans (Family Cracidce) Curassows 

 (Crax) Mituas (Nothocrax) Paaxi Curassow (Pauxis) Derbian Guan (Oreophasis) 

 Guans (Penelope, etc.) The Hoatzin (Family Opisthocomidce) The Rail Tribe 

 (Order Fulicarice) True Rails (Family Rallidce, Genus Rallus} Weka Rails 

 (Ocydromus) Corncrake and Carolina Rails (Grex) Pigmy Rails (Corethrura) 

 Water- Hens (Tribonyx, Gallinula, etc.) Gallinules and Coots (Porphyrio and Fulica) 

 The Finfeet (Family HeliornitUdce\ ....... 393 



CHAPTER XVIII. THE BUSTARDS, THICKNEES, AND CRANES, Order Alectorides. 



Characters of the Group The Bustard Tribe (Family Otididce) True Bustards (Otis) 

 Little Bustard Long- Beaked Bustards (Eupodotis) Ruffed Bustards (Hubara) 

 Florican (Sypheotides) The Thicknees (Family CEdicnemidce} The Seriemas 

 (Family Cariamidce) The Trumpeters (Family Psophiidce) The Cranes (Family 

 Gruidce) True Cranes (Grus) Common Crane Sams Crane White Crane Other 

 Species Crowned Cranes (Balearica) The Courlans (Family Aramidce) The 

 Kagus (Family Rhinochcetidcz^The Sun-Bittern (Family Eurypygidce), . . 451 



CHAPTER XIX. THE PLOVERS, SANDPIPERS, SNIPE, JACANAS, AND GULLS, 



Orders Limicolce and Gavice. 



Characteristics of the Two Groups Distinctions of the Plover Tribe Pratincoles and 

 Coursers (Family Cursoriidce) Pratincoles (Glareola) Cream-Coloured Courser 

 (Cursorius) Black-Backed Courser (Pluvianus) The Plover Tribe (Family 

 Charadriidce) Ringed Plover (dSgialitis) Sand Plovers (^Egialophilus) True 

 Plovers and Dotterels (Oharadrius) Lapwings Four-Toed Lapwings (Vanellus) 



