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eggs in the nests of other birds, which sit upon them and rear the 
young ; the Honey-guides of South Africa are so called from guiding 
the natives to the nests of wild bees ; the Golden Cuckoos of South 
Africa have brilliant metallic green and purple plumage; the An is are 
black birds, found in South America and the West Indies. They are 
very fond of warmth, and live on insects. 
On the East side of the room, in Cases 84-100, are placed the 
Gallinaceous Birds, beginning with the Pigeons ; the most conspicuous 
of these are — the Victoria and great Crowned Pigeons of the East Indian 
Islands; the Nutmeg Pigeons, feeding on aromatic fruits ; the Bronze- 
winged Pigeons of Australia; and a Pigeon which has a red spot on 
the breast, as if it had been shot there with an arrow, and the blood 
had oozed out. Unlike the other Gallinaceae, the Pigeons when 
hatched are bare, and require to be fed by their parents. 
Cases 89, 90. The Curassows of South America, some of them 
with curious crests and knobs on their beak. 
Cases 91-93. The Peacocks and Argus Pheasants of Asia and its 
islands ; the rare Crossoptilon from Thibet, and the many-spurred 
Polyplectrons, with their fine eye-like spots. Cases 94, 95. The 
Pheasants : the most conspicuous are Lady Amherst's Pheasant from 
Thibet, the long-tailed Reeves's Pheasant from China. Cases 9G-99. 
The Wild Fowls, which are inhabitants of the Asiatic jungles and 
woods ; the Fire-backed Pheasant, and the Horned Pheasants of North 
India, with their fine painted faces. Cases 99, 100. Turkeys and 
Guinea-fowl ; the most conspicuous is the Ocellated Turkey of Hon- 
duras. Case 100. The Monaul, or Impeyan Pheasants, found on the 
high mountains of India, where they live on bulbous roots which they 
dig up with their large beaks. Cases 101-103. The Partridges and 
Quails ; among the most curious are the Californian and Crested 
Quails; some of these are found in large flocks; they subsist on seeds 
chiefly. Cases 104, 105. The Grouse are amongst the most fa- 
vourite birds of game : some inhabiting snowy regions, change their 
plumage in autumn to snow-white. Case 105. The Sandgrouse, with 
their ochrey plumage, inhabit the deserts of the Old World. Case 106. 
Sheathbills and Tinamous of the New World. The Megapodius group, 
including the Brush Turkey of Australia, make large mounds of de- 
caying vegetable substances, in which the eggs are deposited, and are 
hatched by the heat of the fermenting mass. 
Cases 107-134. The Wading Birds, generally provided with long 
legs. Cases 107-109. The Ostrich, Emeus, and Cassowaries, the 
largest of recent birds, incapable of flight, but noted for their powers 
in running. In Case 108 are specimens of the Apteryx, wingless 
birds of New Zealand, sleeping during the day, and feeding at night on 
worms and insects. The remains of the bird called the Dodo, which 
has been long extinct : the foot in the Case belonged to a specimen 
in Tradescant's Museum at Lambeth ; the painting is said to have 
been made from a living bird, brought from the Island of Mau- 
ritius, to which the species was peculiar. The selection of bones in 
the second case, including the breast-bone or sternum, the pelvis, 
