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(Ectopistes) —The Ground- Pigeons (Family Peristeride)—Mourning Doves (Zenaidura, 
ete.) —Galapagos Pigeon (Nesopelia)—White-Winged Doves (Melopelia) —Turtle- Doves 
(Turtur)—Allied American Genera (Columbula, etc.)—Cinnamon-Dove (Haplopelia)— 
Blood-Breasted Dove (Phlogwnas)—Wonga-Wonga Dove (Leucosarcia)—Blue-Bearded 
Cuban Dove (Sturnenas)—Cape Dove (4ina)—African Ground-Dove (Chalcopelia) 
— Bronze - Winged Doves (Chalcoptera) — Australian Ground - Doves (Phaps) — 
Harlequin - Dove (Histriophaps) — Peneilled Doves (Geophaps) — Plumed Bronze- 
Winged Dove (Lophophaps) — Crested Bronze - Wing (Ocyphaps)— Nicobar Pigeon 
(Calenas) — Crowned Pigeons (Family Gouride) — Tooth - Billed Pigeon (Family 
Didunculide)— Dodo and Solitaire (Family Didide)— The Sand - Grouse (Family 
Pteroclidv) — Pallas’s Sand - Grouse (Syrrhaptes) — Black - Bellied Sand - Grouse 
(Pterocles)—Pin-Tailed Sand-Grouse (Pteroclurus)—Common Sand-Grouse, 5 otog 
CHAPTER XVIL—Tue Game-Brrps AND Ratts,—Orders Gallinw and Fulicarie. 
Characteristics of Game-Birds—Grouse and Ptarmigan (Family Tetraonidw)—True Grouse 
and Ptarmigan (Lagopus)—Red Grouse— Willow Grouse — Black-Game (Lyrurus) 
—Capercaillie (Tetrao)—American Grouse (Canachites)—Other Genera—Prairie-Hens 
(Tympanuchus)—Sage Grouse (Centrocercus)—Sharp-Tailed Grouse (Pediocetes)—Rutted 
Grouse (Bonasw)—Hazel-Hens (Tetrastes)—Partridges, Pheasants, Turkeys, and Guinea- 
Fowls (Family Phasianidw) — Snow - Partridges and Snow- Cocks (Lerwa and 
Tetrogallus)—Red-Legged Partridges (Caccabis)—Bonham’s Partridge (Ammoperdix) 
—Francolins (Francolinus)—True Partridges (Perdix)—Allied Genera—Tree-Partridges 
(Arboricola) — Wood - Partridges (Caloperdiz, etc.) — Quails (Cotwrniz) — Bamboo- 
Partridges (Bambusicola)—Spur-Fowl (Galloperdix) — Blood-Pheasants (Ophrysia)— 
Monals (Lophophorus)— Fire-Backed Pheasants (Acomus)—Bulwer’s Pheasant (Lobio- 
phasis) —Eared Pheasants (Crossoptilum)— Kalij Pheasants (Genneus) — Koklass 
Pheasants (Pucrasia)—True Pheasants (Phasianus)— Golden and Amherst’s Pheasants 
(Chrysolophus) —- Game-Fowls (Gallus) — Peacock-Pheasants (Polyplectrum) — Argus 
Pheasants (Argusianus)—Reinhard’s Argus (Reinhardius)—Peatowl (Pavo)—Guinea- 
Fowls (Numida, ete.) — Vulture - like Guinea-Fowl (Acryllium) — Turkeys (Meleagris) 
—American Partridges and Quails (Odontophorinw)—The Megapodes and Brush- 
Turkeys (Family Megapodiide)—Megapodes (Megapodius)—Brush-Turkeys (Talegallus, 
ete.)— Maleo (Megacephalum)—Curassows and Guans (Family Cracida)— Curassows 
(Crax)—Mituas (Nothocrax) — Pauxi Curassow (Pauxis)—Derbian Guan (Oreophasis) 
—Guans (Penelope, etc.) —'The Hoatzin (Family Opisthocomide)—'The Rail Tribe 
(Order Fulicariw) — True Rails (Family Rallide, Genus Rallus)— Weka Rails 
(Ocydromus)—Corncrake and Carolina Rails (Crex)— Pigmy Rails (Corethrura)— 
Water-Hens (Tribonyx, Gallinula, etc.) —Gallinules and Coots (Porphyrio and Fulica) 
—The Finfeet (Family Heliornithide),  . ; : : ; é . 393 

CHAPTER XVIII.—TuHeE Bustarps, THICKNEES, AND CRANES,—Order A lectorides. 
Characters of the Group—The Bustard Tribe (Family Otidide)—True Bustards (Otis)— 
Little Bustard —- Long-Beaked Bustards (Hupodotis)—Rufted Bustards (Hubara)— 
Florican (Sypheotides) — The 'Thicknees (Family (dicnemidw)— The Seriemas 
(Family Cariamide) —'The Trumpeters (Family Psophiidw)—The Cranes (Family 
Gruide)—True Cranes (Grus)—Common Crane—Sarus Crane—White Crane—Other 
Species — Crowned Cranes (Balearica)—The Courlans (Family Aramide) — The 
Kagus (Family Rhinochetide)—The Sun-Bittern (Family Eurypygide), : . 451 

CHAPTER XIX.—TueE Piovers, SAnpPIPERS, SNIPE, JACANAS, AND GULLS,— 
Orders Limicole and Gavie. 
Characteristics of the Two Groups—Distinctions of the Plover Tribe—Pratincoles and 
Coursers (Family Cursoriide) — Pratincoles (Glareola) — Cream-Coloured Courser 
