GALLINACE.E. 



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HASTINGS'S TRAGOPAN (Satyrus Hasiingsii}, ARGUS PHEASANT (Pka- 

 sianus Argus), and CROWNED PIGEON (Columba Coronala). 



ORDER IV. GALLINACE^ * 



WE begin now to recede from the great distin- 

 guishing character of a Bird, viz. a winged animal : 

 most of the genera of this order are almost confined 



* Gallina, the Latin name of the domestic fowl. 



