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IiATREILLE’s attagis. 
scholtz make a genus, — Tinochorus, which ap- 
proaches near’ to this, and is also a native of South 
America ; but from want of materials, it can only be 
now indicated. 
When these are better known, we have no doubt 
of their proving very interesting forms, and filling up 
some blank In the present family of birds. We shall 
now proceed to a small group, better, though but 
imperfectly, known, the American Quails, included 
under the genus Ortyx, The first we shall notice 
is 
