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15. EAPTORES— Continued. 



Useful traits : 



Scavengers, (vultures, buzzards.) 



Destroy vermin, (owls, hawks.) 

 Injurious traits : Destroy domestic animals, eggs, &c. 



16. COLUMB^. (Pigeons and doves.) 



Useful products : 



Food. 



Ornamental feathers. D. 23. 

 Useful traits : 



Game-birds. 



Susceptible of domestication. 



Used as targets, (wild pigeon.) B. 25. 



Used as carriers, (carrier-pigeon.) 



17. GALLING. (Turkey, grouse, partridge, sage-cock, ptarmigan 



quail, and the domesticated peacock, guinea-fowl, 

 and fowl.) 



Useful products : 



Foods, flesh. D. 1. 

 Ornamental feathers. D. £3. 

 Quills. D. §2. 

 Albumen. D. 30. 



Useful traits : 

 Game-birds. 

 Susceptible of domestication. 



18. LIMICOL^. (Plover, ring-neck, surf-bird, oyster-catcher, turnstone 



avoset, stilt, phalarope, woodcock, snipe, sandpiper 

 dunlin, godwit, sanderling, willet, tattler, yellow 

 shanks, green-shanks, curlew.) 

 » Useful products : 



Food : Flesh. D. 1. 

 Eggs. D. 1. 

 Feathers. D. 23. 

 Useful traits : Game-birds. 



19. HERODIONES. (Ibises, spoonbills, herons, egrets, bitterns.) 



Useful products : Ornamental feathers. D. 23. 

 Useful traits : Destroy vermin. 



