128 GALLING. 



but there appear to be but slight grounds for war- 

 ranting such a conclusion. 



Great allowances must be made for mistakes and 

 errors in the classification, and even in much of the 

 description, of the birds which Cuvier has brought 

 together in this order. With many of them we are 

 abundantly familiar, but there are many others which 

 inhabit only the depths of the tangled and almost 

 impenetrable forests ; and the manners of these are 

 of course as little known as their haunts. 



GALLING. 



Turkey. 



Cuvier's fourth order, the gallinaceous or poultry 

 birds (Gallix.i:, or rather Gallixid.^, for the other 

 genera have of course only resemblances to the com- 

 mon domestic cock {gallus), and are not identified 

 with it), form in many respects a natural order ; 

 because though there are great diff'erences of appear- 

 ance and habit, and still greater difference of climate 

 and haunt, — some, as the ptarmigan, dwelling only on 

 the mountain tops in cold countries, and others, as the 

 peacock and the jungle fowl, dwelling only in the 

 wooded parts of tropical climates, — yet there is a 

 general character which runs through the whole. 

 They are not birds of powerful wing ; and though 

 many of them perch in trees, few or none of them 



