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33. Odontophorus Colambianus 
34. -strophium 
35. -lineolatus 
PI. XXX. 
PI. XXXI. 
PI. XXXII. 
I have now enumerated every species of this group with which I am at present acquainted ; all of which 
having been carefully compared and examined, I am fully satisfied that they are each specifically distinct, 
the whole forming a large and well-defined family, distinguishable from the Partridges and Quails of the 
Old World, with which they have been usually associated, by the absence of any spur or spur-like appendage 
on the tarsi, and by the possession of tooth-like processes on the under mandible. They are pugnacious in 
disposition, semi-arboreal in their habits, deposit their eggs in a depression of the ground, or in a very 
inartificial nest, and the eggs of all the species, so far as I have been able to learn, are white; their food 
consists of seeds, berries, fruits, and the tender leaves of grasses and other annuals; their flesh is white, 
tender, and well-flavonred. 
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