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tail are so imperfect as to prevent me from deciding with certainty the 

 group to which it belongs. Its bill is more that of the genus Platycercus 

 than Paleeornis; but a drawing now in my possession, which was said 

 to have been taken from the bird when in a perfect state of plumage, 

 gives it the tail of Paleeornis. On this authority I provisionally place 

 it in that group. I have seen a second specimen agreeing with the 

 individual described; but I have not been able to ascertain the locality 

 of either. I should not be surprized if they should be found 

 eventually to be females of some described species ; their plumage being 

 of that indistinct character which marks the females of some of the 

 species of the two allied groups above mentioned. 



CoLUMBA SPiLOPTERA. Cupite posteriori, dorso, alanimque tec- 

 tricibvs pallide brunnescenti-rubris, his guttis albis gracilibus notatis; 

 fronte, corporeque subtus piumbescenti-canis ; guld, crissoqne albis; 

 remigum pogoniis internis basi rujis; pedibus jlavis. 



Longitudo corporis 5j unc. 



Habitat in Austraha. 



Ortyx Montezuma. Capite posteriore, dorso, alisque brunneis, 

 plnmis in medio striis rufis ad latera fasciis nigris notatis ; fronte, guld, 

 crisso, corporisque laterihns nigris, his albo-guttatis ; regione cirenm- 

 oculari, strid vtrinque sub rictu, alter d utrinque ad frontem circuloque 

 a supercilio ad pectus deseendenie, albis ; abdomine medio castaneo. 



Magnitude Ortygis Californiani. 



Habitat in Mexico. In Musaeo Soc. Zool. 



Ortyx squamatus. Corpore plumbescenti-cano, interscapulio pec- 

 toreque dilutioribus, horum plumis circulo gracili brunneo ad apicem 

 cinctis; cristce occipitalis apice, guld, abdomine medio, crisso, striis- 

 que abdominis laterum rvfescenti-albis. 



Magnitude Ortygis Californiani. 



Habitat in Mexico. In Musaeo Soc. ZooL 



