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( Turtur )—Allied American Genera ( Columbula , etc.)—Cinnamon-Dove ( Haplopelia )— 
Blood-Breasted Dove (Phlogcenas) —'Wonga-Wonga Dove (Leucosarcia) —Blue-Bearded 
Cuban Dove {Sturncmas )—Cape Dove {/Ena )—African Ground-Dove (Chalcopelia) 
_Bronze - Winged Doves {Chalcoptera) — Australian Ground - Doves ( Phaps ) — 
Harlequin - Dove ( Histriophaps ) — Pencilled Doves ( Geophaps ) — Plumed Bronze- 
Winged Dove ( Lophophaps) — Crested Bronze - Wing ( Ocyphaps )— Nicobar Pigeon 
(Calcenas) — Crowned Pigeons (Family Gouridce) — Tooth - Billed Pigeon (Family 
Didunculidce) — Dodo and Solitaire (Family Dididce) — The Sand-Grouse (Family 
Pteroclidce) — Pallas’s Sand - Grouse ( Syrrhaptes ) — Black - Bellied Sand - Grouse 
( Pterocles) —Pin-Tailed Sand-Grouse (Pteroclurus )—Common Sand-Grouse, . . 363 
CHAPTER XVII.—The Game-Birds and Rails,—O rders Gallince and Fulicarice. 
Characteristics of Game-Birds—Grouse and Ptarmigan (Family Tetraonidce )—True Grouse 
and Ptarmigan ( Lagopus )—Red Grouse—Willow Grouse — Black-Game ( Lyrurus) 
—Capercaillie ( Tetrao )—American Grouse {Canachites )—Other Genera—Prairie-Hens 
( Tympanuchus )—Sage Grouse ( Centrocercus) —Sharp-Tailed Grouse ( Pedioccetes )—Ruffed 
Grouse (Bonasa) —Hazel-Hens (Tetrastes)— Partridges, Pheasants, Turkeys, and Guinea- 
Fowls (Family Phasianidce) — Snow - Partridges and Snow - Cocks (Lerwa and 
Tetrogallus) —Red-Legged Partridges (Caccabis)— Bonham’s Partridge ( Ammoperdix ) 
—Francolins {Francolinus )—True Partridges (Perdix )—Allied Genera—Tree-Partridges 
( Arboricola ) — Wood - Partridges ( Galoperclix , etc.)—Quails ( Coturnix) — Bamboo- 
Partridges ( Bambusicola) —Spur-Fowl ( Galloperdix ) — Blood-Pheasants ( Ophrysia )— 
Mon als (Lophophorus) —Fire-Backed Pheasants ( Acomus) —Bulwer’s Pheasant ( Lobio- 
phasis) — Eared Pheasants ( Crossoptilum )— Kalij Pheasants ( Gennceus ) — Koklass 
Pheasants ( Pucrasia )—True Pheasants (Phasianus )— Golden and Amherst’s Pheasants 
(■ Chrysolophus ) — Game-Fowls ( Gallus) — Peacock-Pheasants {Polyplectrum) — Argus 
Pheasants (Argusianus )—Reinhard’s Argus ( Reinhardius )—Peafowl ( Pavo )—Guinea- 
Fowls (Nuviida, etc.) — Vulture-like Guinea-Fowl ( Acryllium ) — Turkeys ( Meleagris) 
—American Partridges and Quails ( Odontophorince )—The Megapodes and Brush- 
Turkeys (Family Megapodiidce )—Megapodes ( Megapodius )—Brush-Turkeys ( Talegallus , 
etc.)—Maleo (Megacephalum )—Curassows and Guans (Family Cracidce) — Curassows 
( Grax )—Mituas ( Nothocrnx ) — Pauxi Curassow ( PauxAs )—Derbian Guan ( Oreophasis) 
■—Guans (Penelope, etc.) — The Hoatzin (Family Opisthocomidce) — The Rail Tribe 
(Order Fulicarice ) — True Rails (Family Eallidce, Genus Rallus )-—Weka Rails 
( Ocydromus )—Corncrake and Carolina Rails ( Grex) — Pigmy Rails ( Corethrura )— 
Water-Hens ( Tribonyx , Gallinula, etc.) — Gallinules and Coots (Porphyrio and Fulica ) 
—The Finfeet (Family Heliornithidce), ....... 393 
CHAPTER XVIII.—The Bustards, Thicknees, and Cranes,—O rder Alectorides. 
Characters of the Group—The Bustard Tribe (Family Otididce )—True Bustards {Otis )— 
Little Bustard — Long-Beaked Bustards {Eupodotis )—Ruffed Bustards {Hubara )— 
Florican {Sypheotides) — The Thicknees (Family CEdicnemidce) — The Seriemas 
(Family Cariamidce) — The Trumpeters (Family Psophiidce )—The Cranes (Family 
Gruidce )—True Cranes {Grus )—Common Crane—Saras Crane—White Crane—Other 
Species — Crowned Cranes {Balearica) — The Courlans (Family Aramidce) — The 
Kagus (Family Rhinochcetidce )—The Sun-Bittern (Family Eurypygidce ), . . 451 
CHAPTER XIX.—The Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipe, Jacanas, and Gulls,— 
Orders Limicolce and Gavice. 
Characteristics of the Two Groups—Distinctions of the Plover Tribe—Pratincoles and 
Coursers (Family Cursoriidce) — Pratincoles {Glareola) — Cream-Coloured Courser 
{Cursorius) — Black-Backed Courser {Pluvianus) — The Plover Tribe (Family 
Charadriidce )— Ringed Plover {AEgialitis) — Sand Plovers {JEgialophilus) — True 
Plovers and Dotterels {Charadrius) —Lapwings—Four-Toed Lapwings ( Vanellus) 
