48 ELEMENTS OF OBNITHOIOGT. 



vegetable-feeder, and a large and htodsome Bird, standing 

 between 3 and 4 feet high, and running and walking well as 

 well as flying rapidly. 



The Kagu {Ehinochaiue juhatm). 



A rare visitant to our shores is the Courser (Cursorius 

 gallicMs, fig. 49), one of a group of ten species which, like the 

 Bustards, love to range over open plains of the Old World. 



In the Southern part of the New "World, from Mexico south- 



