a c" ‘age 
It is impossible to ayoid depuis z from the whole genus Tetrao 
the F ~ ™ x 
- 4 = -« : Po 4 
Tripactryztes, Lacép. Borroprosp Tem. ’ 
In which the thumb is wanting, and,whose compressed be beak for forms 
a little projection under the der mandible. They cannot, how. 
ever, be properly classed until their anatomy is better known. They 
are Bolyesmane and inhabit sandy eer ice: ae Some of them, the 
Turnrx, Bonn at.—OnryGIs, Mig. 
Have still all the appearance of Quam t their toes are completely 
separated down to the very base, ant, are without the small mem- 
branes. 
. The natives of Java use one species for fighting, as Cocks are used _ 
in England; it is the Hemip. pugnax, T. » Col. 602.(1) "Others, such 
as the ae 
_ 9 . °¢ aoe . : , 
SyrruarreEs, Illig., pal 
Are so far removed from the general type of the Gallinacezx, - 
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 partly united; their wings are extremely long 
and pointed. os ; 
One species ‘only is known, and that is from the deserts of © 
central Asia—Tetrao paradoxus, Pall., Voy., Fr. Trans. 8yo, 
tom. III, pl. 1, page 18; Vieill. Galer., pl. te. the Hetero- 
_clite, Tem., Col., . 95. ¢® 
Odontophorus rufus, Vieill. Galer. pl. ccxi, which is not a Tina as Gmelin », 
asserts. Among those the size of the Quail : Tetrao mexicunus, Enl..149, Frisch. 1. § 
the same as marylandicus, Albin. I, xxviii, and as virginianus, or Perdix borealis, 
Vieill. Galer. 214;—Tttr. Falklandicus, Enl., 222;— Tetr. cristatus, Enl: 126, f. 1;— 
the Colin Sonnini (Perd. Sonnini, T,) Col. 75, and Jour. de Phys., Ul, 217, and pl. 
2;—the Colin @ aigrette de Californie, Tetr. californius, Sh., Nat. Misc. IX, pl. 345, 
and Atl. Voy. de la Peyrouse, pl. xxxvi;—the Perd. rousse-gorge (Pend. cambayen- 
sis, Tem.) Col, 447;—Perd. australis, Vieill. Gal. 215. : 
(1) Add Tetrao nigricollis, Enl. 171;—Tetr. andalusicus, Lath., Syn. Tr , part 2, 
fig. of the title page;—T%tr. lwzoniensis, Sonn. Voy. I, pl. xxiii; —Hemipodius ni- 
grifrons, Tem. II, 610, and Vieill. Gal. 218;—Hemip. thoracicus, Tem. III, 622, or 
L'urnix maculatus, Vieill. Gal. pl. 217;—Hemip. Meiffrenii, T. Col. 60, 1, of which 
Vieill., Gal. 300, makes his genus Torticetxe, and places it among the Waders, 
inasmuch as the lower part of the tibia is without feathers;—the Hemip. nivosus, 
Swains. Zool. lll., 163, must also belong to it;—the Tir. suscitator, or Htéveil-matin 
of Java is also a Turhix. See Hontius, Med. Ind. P- 65. 
