CONTENTS. 



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Pheasants 



Silver 425 



Ring-necked 427 



Reeves's 427 



Lady Amherst's 427 



Argus 427 



Gallus 427 



Common 427 



Bankiva 429 



Jungle-fowl 429 



Bionzed 429 



Fork-tailed 429 



Kulm 429 



Negro 429 



Tragopans 435 



Pintados 435 



Turkeys 437 



Wild 437 



Domestic 440 



Ocellated 441 



Peacocks 441 



Domestic 442 



Wild 444 



Polyplectrons 444 



Impeyan Pheasants 444 



Alectors 444 



Hocco, or Curassow 444 



Pauxis 446 



Penelopes, or Guans 446 



Hoazins 446 



Columbidee : 



Colombi-Gallines 447 



Pigeons (Colombes) 448 



King or Wood 450 



Wild Rock 450 



Common Domestic 450 



Pouter 451 



Roman 451 



Swift 452 



Carrier 452 



Tumbler 452 



Wheeling 452 



Nun 452 



Fan-tailed 452 



Turtle Dove -. . . 453 



Ring Dove 453 



Passenger i . . 453 



Columbars 456 



CHAPTER VI. 



SCANSORES, OR CLIMBERS. 



Parrots 457 Cuckoos 



Macaw 464 Grey 469 



Parrakeets 465 Indicators 472 



Tabuan 465 Anis 473 



Parrot, Grey 466 Barbets 474 



Green 466 Trogons 475 



Cockatoos 466 Resplendent 476 



Toucans 467 Mexican 476 



Proper 468 Woodpeckers 476 



Aracaris . . 469 Wry-necks 479 



Cuckoos 469 Jacainars 480 



CHAPTER VII. 



PASSERINES. 



Syndacti/les : 



Hornbills 482 



Rhinoceros 483 



Fly-catchers 483 



King-fishers 484 



Ceyx Meninting 486 



Bee-eaters 486 



Common 488 



Momots 487 



Tai/iirotitres : 



Hoopoes . 488 



Epimachus 490 



Promerops 490 



Colibri 491 



Proper 491 



Humming-birds 491 



Creepers 495 



Picumnus 496 



Furnarius 496 



Sucriers 497 



Soui-mangas 497 



Nuthatches 498 



Conirostres : 



Birds of Paradise 499 



Great Emerald 500 



King Bird 500 



Superb 500 



Sifilets 501 



Crows 502 



Raven 502 



Carrion 502 



Royston 502 



