AVES—QUAIL...SCREAMER. 609 
THE CALIFORNIAN QUAIL! 

Tue general color of the upper part of the body and wings in the Califor- 
nian quail, is of a dusky brown, assuming a leaden or slaty tinge on the 
tail, and on the fore part of the breast, upon which it advances in the form 
of a broadband. The fore part of the head is of a mixed ash gray, and the 
hinder part blackish brown. 
ORDER XI.—ALECTORIDES. 
Binns of this order have the bill shorter than the head, or the same length, 
strong, robust, upper mandible convex, and often hooked at the point; tarsus 
long and slender; three toes before and one behind; the hind toe articulated 
higher up than those before. 
THE HORNED SCREAMER? 
Is a native of Brazil. This is a water-fowl cf the rapacious kind, and big- 
ger than a swan. The head, which is small for the size of the body, bears 

1 Perdix californica, LATH, 
2 Palamedea cornuta, LatH. The genus palamedea has the bill short, conico-convex 
much curved at the point, compressed throughout its length; nasal furrow large; head 
small, covered with down, and around with a slender flexible horn; nostrils remote from 
the base of the bill, lateral, oval, open ; legs short, thick; tees very long, the lateral con- 
nected with the intermediate by a short membrane; wirgs ample, and spurs op the 
winglets. 
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