CONTENTS. 



Longirostres : 



Sandpipers 332 



Brown 334 



Greenshank 334 



Redshank 334 



Pond 334 



Wood 334 



Green 334 



Common 334 



Turnstone 334 



Ruff 336 



Knot 338 



Sanderlings 339 



Woodcock 339 



Snipe 343 



Common 344 



Great 345 



Jack 345 



Wilson's 345 



Godwit . . 345 



Curlew ..." 346 



Ibis 348 



Sacred 348 



Green 351 



Scarlet 351 



Cultrirostres : 



Spoonbills 352 



White 352 



Rose-coloured 352 



Storks 353 



White 353 



Black 357 



Argala 357 



Jabiru 359 



Ombrette 359 



Bec-ouvert 359 



Drome . . 359 



PAGK 



Tantalus 360 



Boatbill 360 



Herons 361 



Common 362 



Purple 364 



White 364 



Bitterns 366 



Crane 366 



Ash-coloured 366 



Demoiselle 371 



Crested 371 



Hooping 371 



Caurale 373 



Pressirostres : 



Cariama 373 



Oyster-catchers 373 



Runners 376 



Lapwings 376 



Plovers 378 



Great Land 379 



Doterel 379 



Ringed 379 



Kentish 380 



Golden 380 



Pluvian 381 



Bustard 381 



Great 381 



Brempennw : 



Ostrich . , .... 383 



Rhea 390 



Cassowary 392 



Emu 393 



Apteryx 395 



Extinct Brevipenn& : 



Dodo 397 



Epiornis 397 



Dinornis 397 



CHAPTER V. 



GALLINACEOUS BIRDS. 



Habits, origin, &c 399 



Tetraonidce : 



Capercailzie 401 



Grouse, Black 402 



Pinnated 402 



Ruffed 403 



Cock of the Plains 402 



Gelinotte 403 



Ptarmigans 404 



Common 404 



Red Grouse 405 



Perdicides : 



Gangas 405 



Pin-tailed S and Grouse 406 



Heteroclites 406 



Quails 406 



Partridges 410 



Grey 415 



Partridges, Red-legged 417 



Gambra 417 



Colin, Virginian 417 



Californian 41 



Solitary 41 



Francolins 41 



Chinese 41 



European 42 



African and Indian 42 



Coturnix 42 



Turnix tachydroma 42 



Tinamides 42 



Chionidse 42 



Megapodidse 42 



PhasianidcG : 



Pheasants 42 



Common 42 



Golden ... .42 



