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they feed on grain, roots, and insects; as the common pheasant, 
painted pheasant, and the Reeves’s pheasant of China. 
Cases 96 — 99. The fowls which are inhabitants of the jungles and 
woods of the continent and isles of India ; their food consists of grain 
and fruits, &c., as ( Case 96) the pencilled pheasant of China, coloured 
pheasant of Himalayan Mountains, &e. Case 98. Rufous-tailed phea- 
sant, and fire-backed pheasant of Sumatra, &c. ; Sonnerat’s wild cock, 
superb pheasant, Javan cock, &c. Case 99. Horned pheasant, black- 
headed horned pheasant of India, &c. 
Cases 99, 100. The Turkeys and pintados are found in America 
and Africa ; they feed on grain and other vegetable substances ; as 
( Case 99) the Guinea pintado, crested pintado of Africa; (Case 100) 
American turkey, &c. 
Case 100. The Impeyan pheasants are peculiar to the northern 
parts of Asia, where they feed on bulbous roots, which they dig up by 
means of their bills ; as the Impeyan pheasant, Pucras pheasants, &c. 
Cases 101 — 103. The Partridges are found in both the New and 
Old World, where they generally inhabit the plains; their food consists 
of grain and other vegetable substances; as (Case 101) the sanguine 
pheasant, currie partridge of Nepaul, &c., cape partridge, bare-necked 
partridge of Africa, francolin partridge of Europe and India. Case 
102. Red partridge of Europe, olive partridge of India, common 
partridge and quail of England, Andalusian quail of Spain, & c. Case 
103. Crowned partridge of India, Californian quail, and crested 
quail, &c. 
Cases 104, 105. The Grouse, which are peculiar to the northern 
parts of Europe and America: viz. the True Grouse, which are 
natives of the forests of the high northern latitudes of both hemi- 
spheres, and of the highest mountains of central Europe ; they feed 
on grain, buds, and fruits; as the wood grouse, which is sometimes taken 
in the North of Britain, as well as the ptarmigan grouse and willow 
grouse ; sharp-tailed grouse, ruffed grouse, both of America. Case 
105. Sand grouse are only found in the deserts of the hottest parts of 
the Old World, as the pin-tailed grouse and sand grouse, &c. 
Case 106. The Sheathbills have all the appearances of grouse: 
some inhabit the plains of South America, and others are generally 
seen on the sea-shore, or far out at sea ; as the white sheathbill and 
black-billed sheathbill, &c. The Tinamous are inhabitants of the warmer 
parts of the New World, where they are seen among the low brushwood 
or tall grass; their food consists of fruits and insects; as the great tina- 
mou, variegated tinamou, &c. The Megapodius is peculiar to the 
Asiatic Islands and Australia, as the megapodius, and the New Holland 
vulture, &c. 
Cases 107—134. The Wading Birds. 
Cases 107 — 109. The Ostriches, which are in flocks, and subsist on 
grain, fruits, and herbage ; as the ostrich of Africa ; American emu, 
New Holland cassowary, and galeated cassowary. 
Case 108. The Dodo, which is only known by remains, as, for ex- 
ample, the foot in this Case (presented by the Royal Society), and a 
head (of which a cast is in this Case) and foot, said to have belonged 
to a specimen which was formerly in Tradescant’s Museum, now form- 
