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its whole length, the tip knobbed. It is 30 cm. (11 to 
12 inches) long, and frequents bogs, swamps, wet woodlands 
and fields in the eastern United States and Canada. 
Connecting in some degree the waders and gallinaceous 
fowl are the bustards of the Old World, certain strange ex- 
otic birds; especially the horned screamers, represented by a 
very rare bird, the Palamedea cornuta, which has sharp 
horns on the wings. 
Order 6. Gallince (Gallinaceous birds). — The appearance 
Fig. 263.— stilt. 
of these birds, formerly called Rasores, from their peculiar 
habit of scratching the ground for food, is readily recalled 
by a simple enumeration of the partridge, Oreortyx (0. 
pictus, Fig. 264), quail {Ortyx), ptarmigan {Lagopus,¥ig. 
265), pinnated grouse or prairie hen [Cupidonia cupido), 
sage-cock, Canada grouse or spruce partridge (Tetrao), and 
wild turkey (Meleagris), as well as the exotic forms, the 
pheasant of the Old World, the useful hen or barn-yard 
fowl, which is a descendant of the jungle fowl {Gallus 
Banhiva) of India. These are allied to the argus-pheasant 
and the peacock of Malaysia, the latter rivalling the hum- 
