ORDER GALLINiE. 71 



which the bill is stronger without any furrow ; a 

 little arched and depressed, with the nostrils pierced 

 towards its base. 



Rufescent Tinamou. Lath. H. Tin. Isahelle. T. 

 Rufescens. Tem. Col. 412, or Rhyncotus Fas- 

 ciatus. Sp. 76, c. 1. 



Body, above, ashy-red ; feathers, white and black 

 banded ; edge of the wings, reddish ; ears, black ; 

 beneath, yellowish-red, waved with brown ; sides and 

 belly, ashy. America. Paraguay. Length, fifteen 

 inches. Egg, violet. The Cryptura Guagu. Vieil. 



Temminck, Lesson, and others have placed the 

 genus Megapodius in this order ; but Cuvier has 

 placed it with the Palamedice, in the Wading Birds. 



Consult, also, the Barred-tail Tinamou. Lath. H. 

 viii. 216. 



The Pigeons. Columba. L. 



May be viewed as forming a link between the 

 gallinaceous and the passerine birds. Like the 

 former, they have the bill vaulted, the nostrils open- 

 ing in a large membranaceous space, and covered 

 with a cartilaginous scale, which forms a sweUing at 

 the bottom of the bill. The osseous sternum is 

 deeply and doubly emarginated, although it is a little 

 differently arranged from that of the passerine birds. 

 The crop is extremely ddated, the lower larynx 

 furnished with a muscle peculiar to itj but their 

 toes have no other membranes between their base 

 than such as result from a continuation of their 



