348 
YOUNG 
OF THE 
RASORES AND GRALLATORES. 
PLATE XXXIV. 
On this Plate we have endeavoured to represent the 
young of these two orders or groups of birds. Leav- 
ing the Incessorial birds, we entered the first by 
means of the Pigeons, where, among the greater 
part, the young were still hatched unfledged, and 
were fed for some time in the nest. In all the other 
families, the young run almost immediately after 
exclusion from the egg, and, in consequence,' are 
protected by a close and ample soft down. In the 
greater part of the Basores, the colours at this time 
are shades of brown, chestnut, and yellow, as in- 
stanced in the Partridge. In the Ardeadce , it is 
shades of grey and white. In the Scolopacidai or 
Snipes, and Ckaradriadie or Plovers, it is also shades 
of brown, chestnut, yellow, or grey, like the middle 
figure of the young Curlew ; while in the Ballidce, 
