A VES—QUAIL...SCREAMER. 609 
THE CALIFORNIAN QUAIL! 
THE 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. 
Binps 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 ef the rapacious kind, and kig- 
ger than a swan. ‘The head, which is small for the size of the body, bears 
1 Perdix californica, Larn. 
2 Palamedea cornuta, LArH. 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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