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BLACK'NECKED ORTYGm. 
Ortj/ffit nigricoliis, 
PLATE XXVI II. 
Turnix cognflti, Hemipodius nJgricolIiB, Temminckt Pigeons 
et Gatiinaeet^ in, p. GW. 
Tins ia a stronger dpeciea than tlie ImI, coming 
nearer to the trut,* qiiarls being rathcT more iKan six 
inches in length. The head atu[ neck are deep hfack^ 
mingled above with wliit« and brown, but npon the 
throat generally of a wohd hUitk. The upper plu- 
mage ia varifd with irregular nmrkings of yt?llo wish- 
brown and hlack, and the breast ia largely bam-d 
with the latitT colour upon a pale yellowish -brown 
groun<). It iidiahit!i the inland of MsidagaM-aff and 
most probably also the continent of Africa- 
Tlie next birds wo ha^e to notice are the last in 
this important and ici teres tin family, but although 
they have been placed last, we tvre by no mean-* cer- 
tain of their situation. The TinaniouB, formiiig the 
genus Crypturus of IDlger, are all naiiven of the 
New World, pai ticuJurly abounding in the Bra/,tlian 
and tropiL-al fore^sts^ whose open glades iln?y frequent 
during tlie day, imd at night repose ou the large 
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