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Cryptonyx Niger, Vig. 

 Black ; quills, brownish ; orbits, naked. Length, ten 

 inches. 



Cryptonyx Fei'rugineus, Vig. 



Dark fcrrugineous, beneath, paler; back and wing, 

 with narrow wavy, brown bands ; scapular and secon- 

 daries, pale-ferrugineous in the middle, with a broad 

 black band. Length, ten inches. Ava. Mr. Craw- 

 furd, Mus. Hardwicke. 



The Perdix Cambienensis^ Lath, which Temminck 

 first called Cryptonyx Rufus, he is now induced 

 to consider as a true partridge. See PI. Col. t. 447- 

 See also Malacca Partridge, Lath. Hist. viii. 

 334.* 



Tetrao, L. 

 Is also a numerous genus, whose characters consist 



* Pkasianus Cristatus forms the genus OphistAocormis, of Cuvier. Pha. 

 Africanus, is a Mmophaga, Temm. and Vieil. and a Corythaix of Cuv. 



Phas. Motmot, and Ph. Parragua, and perhaps Ph. Mexicantis, are 

 Penelope. 



Ph. Impeyanus, and Ph. Lencomelanos, are Lophophori. 



Ph. Mexicantis, and Tetrao Nova Hispatiics, Gmel. both established 

 from Fernandez's description of the Hoitlallotl, appear to be very doubtful 

 species. The Courier Gimn of Lath. Hist. 



Lesson has added the genus Talegalla, named, from having the form 

 of the Taleres, or Sultana fowls ; with the bill very strong and thick, 

 and with the upper jaw compressed and extending up the forehead. The 

 cheek quite naked ; wings, rounded ; tail, long, rounded ; tarsi, strong, and 

 moderately long, and covered with large scales. 

 Only one species known, found in New Guinea. 



Talegalla Cuvieri, Lesson. Voy. Coq. t. 38. Black ; size of a common 

 fowl. 



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