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

 Blood-Breasted Dove (Phlogcenas) — Wonga-Wonga Dove {Lexicosarcia) — Blue-Bearded 

 Cuban Dove {Stummias) — Cape Dove {Alna) — African "Ground-Dove {Chalcopelia) 

 — Bronze - Winged Doves (Chalcoptera) — Australian Ground - Doves {Pliaps) — 

 Harlequin - Dove {Histriophaps) — Pencilled Doves {Geophaps) — Plumed Bronze- 

 Winged Dove {Lopliophaps) — Crested Bronze - Wing {Ocy pimps) — Nicobar Pigeon 

 {Cal(enas) — Crowned Pigeons (Family Gowritte) — Tooth - Billed Pigeon (Family 

 Didunculidw) — Dodo and Solitaire (Family Dididce) — The Sand -Grouse (Family 

 Pteroclidce) — Pallas's Sand - Grouse {Syrrhaptes) — Black - Bellied Sand - Grouse 

 {Pterocles) — Pin-Tailed Sand-Grouse {Pterocluriis) — Common Sand-Grouse, . . 363 



CHAPTER XVII.— The Game- Birds and Rails, — Orders Gallince and Fulicarm. 



Characteristics of Game-Birds — Grouse and Ptarmigan (Family Tetramidw) — True Grouse 

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

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

 (Tympanuchus)— Sage Grouse (Cen^rocgrcws)— Sharp-Tailed Grouse (Pedioccetes) — Ruffed 

 (Jrouse (BoTuwa)— Hazel- Hens {Tetrastes) — Partridges, Pheasjints, Turkeys, and Guinea- 

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

 Tetrogallus) — Red-Legged Partridges {Caccabis) — Bonhani's Partridge {Ammoperdix) 

 — Francolins (Francolinus) — True Partridges (Perdtx)— Allied Genera— Tree-Partridges 

 (Arboricola) — Wood - Partridges (Caloperdix, etc.) — Quails {Coturnix) — Bamboo- 

 Partridges (Bambtisicola) — Spur-Fowl {Galloperdix) — Blood- Pheasants {Ophi-ysia) — 

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

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

 Pheasants (Piurasta) — True Pheasants (Phasianiis) — Golden and Amherst's Pheasants 

 {Chrysolophus) — Game-Fowls {Gallus) — Peacock- Pheasants (Polypledrum) — Argus 

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

 ¥ow\s {Numida, etc.) — Vulture -like Guinea- Fowl {Acryllium) — Turkeys (Meleagris) 

 — American Partridges and Quails {Odontophorince) — The Megapodes and Brush- 

 Turkeys (Family Megapodiidae) — Megapodes (Megapodius) — Brush-Turkeys {Talegallus, 

 etc.) — Maleo (Megacephalum) — Curassows and Quans (Family Cracidce) — Curassows 

 (Crox) — Mituas (Nothocrax) — Pauxi Curassow (Pauxis) — Derbiau Guan (Oreophasis) 

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

 (Order Fulicarict) — True Rails (Family Ballidce, Genus Rallus) — Weka Rails 

 (Ocydromus) — Corncrake and Carolina Rails (Crex) — Pigmy Rails (Corethncra) — 

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

 —The Finfeet (Family Helionnthidce), ....... 393 



CHAPTER XVIII. — The Bustards, Thicknees, and Cranes, — Order Aledorides. 



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 (Edicnemid(B) — The Seriemas 

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

 Gruidce) — True Cranes (Grus) — Common Crane — Sarus Crane — White Crane — Other 

 Species — Crowned Cranes (Balearica) — The Courlans (Family Aramidc) — The 

 Kagus (Family Ehinochoitidce) — The Sun-Bittern (Family Eurypygidoe), . ■ 151 



CHAPTER XIX.— The Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipe, Jacanas, and Gulls,— 

 Orders Lvmicolce 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 (^gialitis) — Sand Plovers (^Egialophilus) — True 

 Plovers and Dotterels (Charadrius) — Lapwings — Four-Toed Lapwings (Vanellm) 



