368 



GALLINJ5. 



Figures : Gould, Birds of Great Britain, v. pi. 42 ; Dresser, Birds 

 of Europe, viii. pi. 633. 



The Little Grebe is a common summer visitor to Yezzo, and a 

 still commoner resident in the more southerly Japanese Islands ; but 

 the first authentic occurrence of this species in Japan was that of an 

 example obtained in September by Captain Blakiston in South Yezzo 

 (Swinhoe, Ibis, 1875, p. 456). There are 12 examples in all stages 

 of plumage in the Pryer collection from Yokohama ; and Mr. Ringer 

 has procured it at Nagasaki (Blakiston, Amended List of the Birds 

 of Japan, p. 32). 



The Little Grebe breeds in all the temperate and subtropical parts 

 of the Old World, from the British Islands to Japan, and from 

 South Africa to the Malay Archipelago and Australia, with the 

 exception of Siberia and Mongolia. 



Suborder XXXI. ■ GALLING. 



Palate schizognathous ; basipterygoid processes articulating with 

 the pterygoids as far from the quadrates as possible ; epistemal pro- 

 cess perforated to receive the feet of the coracoids ; nasals holorhinal. 



Front portion of sternum of (4) Crax caruncida, (5) of Lophophorus impeyanus, 

 (6) of Megapodiits nibripes. 



