GALLINACE. 319 
Tue Corins, PArTrRiIpGEs, AND QUAILS oF AMERICA, 
Have a stouter, shorter, and more convex bill; the tail is somewhat 
larger*. They perch on bushes, and even on trees, when they are pur- 
sued. Several of them migrate like the Quails of Europe. 
It is impossible to avoid separating from the whole genus Tetrao the 
Tripactytes, Lacep.—Hemiropivs, Tem., 
In which the thumb is wanting, and whose compressed bill forms a little 
projection under the lower mandible. They cannot, however, be properly 
classed until their anatomy is better known. They are polygamous, and 
inhabit sandy districts. Some of them, the 
Turnix, Bonnat.—Orrtyats, Illig. 
Have still all the appearance of Quails; their toes are completely sepa- 
rated down to the very base, and are without the small membranes. 
The natives of Java preserve one species for fighting, as Cocks in 
England; it is the Hemip. pugnax, T. Col. 602}. Others, such as the 
Syrruapres, Lilig. 
Are so far removed from the general type of the Gallinacee, that we are 
tempted to doubt the propriety of placing them in this order. Their 
short tarsi are covered with feathers as well as the toes, which are also 
very short and united partially in their length; their wings are extremely 
long and pointed. 
One species only is known, and that is from the deserts of central 
Asia— Tetrao paradoxus, Pall. Voy., Fr. Trans. 8vo, tom. III. pl. 
1, page 18; Vieill. Galer. pl. 222; the Heteroclite, Tem. Col. 
pl. 95. 
It is equally necessary to separate from Tetrao, the ~ 
* Among the species, the size of the Partridge, we may remark the Tocro, or 
Perdrix de la Guiane, Buff. (Yetr. guyanensis, Gm.), or Perd. dentata, Tem., or Odon- 
tophorus rufus, Vieill. Galer. pl. ecxi, which is not a Tinamou, as Gmelin asserts. 
Among those the size of the Quail: Tetrao mexicanus, Enl. 149, Frisch. II, the same 
as marylandicus, Albin, I, xxviii, and as virginianus, or Perdix borealis, Vieill. Galer. 
214;—Tetr. Falklandicus, En). 222;—Tetr. cristatus, Enl. 116, f£. 1;—the Colin Son- 
nini (Perd. Sonnini, T.), Col. 75, and Jour. de Phys. II, 217, and pl. 2;—the Colin & 
aigrette de Californie, Tetr. californius, Sh., Nat. Misc. IX, pl. 345, and Atl. Voy. de 
la Perouse, pl. xxxvi;—the Perd. rousse-gorge (Perd. cambeyensis, Tem.), Col. 447 ;— 
Perd. australis, Vieill. Gal. 215. 
t Add Tetrao nigricollis, Enl. 171;—Tetr. andalusicus, Lath. Syn. II, part 2, fig. of 
the title page;—Tetr. luzoniensis, Sonn. Voy. I, pl. xxiii;— Hemipodius nigrifrons, Tem. 
III, 610, and Vieill. Gal. 218 ;—Hemip. thoracicus, Tem. III, 622, or Turnix macu- 
latus, Vieill. Gal. pl. 217;—Hemip. Meiffrenii, T. Col. 60, 1, of which Vieill. Gal. 
300, makes his genus TorTIcELLE, and places it among the Waders, inasmuch as the 
lower part of the tibia is without feathers;—the Hemip. nivosus, Swains. Zool. Tl. 
163, must also belong to it;—the Tetr. suscitator, or Réveil-matin of Java is also a 
Turnix. See Bontius, Med. Ind. p. 65. 
