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with crests or other ornamental plumes, so prevalent in the order 
to which they belong. The sub-families and genera, according 
to the arrangement of Messrs. Sclater and Salvin, are as 
follows 
Tinamiile, 7 genera. — Tinamus (7 sp.), Mexico to Paraguay; 
Nothocercus (3 sp.), Costa Rica to Venezuela and Ecuador; Crypt- 
urus (16 sp.), Mexico to Paraguay and Bolivia ; Rhynchotus (2 
sp.), Bolivia and South Brazil to La Plata ; Notlwpr octet (4 sp.), 
Ecuador to Bolivia and Chili ; Nothura (4 sp.), Brazil and Bolivia 
to Patagonia ; Taoniscus (1 sp.), Brazil to Paraguay. 
Tinamotxn^b, 2 genera. — Galodromas (1 sp.), La Plata and 
Patagonia ; Tinamotis (1 sp.), Andes of Peru and Bolivia. 
General Remarks on the Distribution of Gallince. 
There are about400 known species of Gallinaceous birds grouped 
into 76 genera, of which no less than 65 are each restricted 
to a single region. The Tetraonidse are the only cosmopolitan 
family, and even these do not extend into Temperate South Ameri- 
ca, and are very poorly represented in Australia. The Cracidee 
and Tinamidse are strictly Neotropical, the Megapodiidae almost 
as strictly Australian. There remains the extensive family of the 
Phasianidae, which offers some interesting facts. We have first 
the well-marked sub-families of the Numidinae and Meleagrinae, 
confined to the Ethiopian and Nearctic regions respectively, and 
we find the remaining five sub-families, comprising about 60 
species, many of them the most magnificent of known birds, 
spread over the Oriental and the south-eastern portion of the 
Palsearctic regions. This restriction is remarkable, since there 
is no apparent cause in climate or vegetation why pheasants 
should not be found wild throughout southern Europe, as they 
were during late Tertiary and Post-Tertiary times. We have also 
to notice the remarkable absence of the Pheasant tribe from 
Hindostan and Ceylon, where the peacock and jungle-fowl are 
their sole representatives. These two forms also alone extend 
to Java, whereas in the adjacent islands of Borneo and Sumatra 
we have Argusianus , Polyplectron , and Euplocamus. The com- 
mon jungle-fowl (the origin of our domestic poultry) is the only 
