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tumn in countless numbers. Other species are found in 
Australia and New Zealand. 
There are some forty species of American quail, differing 
slightly in structure of bill from the foregoing. 
The well-known Common Partridge, Quail, or “ Bob- 
white,” as it is frequently called ( Ortyx virginianus) , is the 
most widely distributed species in North America, and has 
several marked varieties in the south-west and in Cuba. The 
female is lighter in color than the male, and has the buff of 
the neck replaced by white. 
On the Pacific coast several genera have the head beauti¬ 
fully ornamented with plumes of feathers rising in various 
shapes. Examples of this form are the Plumed or Mountain 
Partridge ( Oreoriyx pictus), the Valley Quail ( Lophor- 
tyx calif'ornicus) , and Gambel’s Quail (Z. gambeli ), from 
Arizona and New Mexico. 
Others are found in South America, as the White-eared 
Quail ( Eupsychortyx leucotis). 
The birds of the order Crypturi , containing the tinamous 
of South America, are of moderate size and offer a superficial 
likeness to some of the Gallince; their relationship, however, 
appears to be more nearly with struthious birds. There are 
some sixty known species, of which the Cinereous Tinamou 
( Tinamus cinereus ), the Least Tinamou ( Crypturus pileatus ), 
which emits a peculiarly shrill and deafening cry, quite out 
of proportion to its size, and the Variegated Tinamou (C. 
variegatus ), are sometimes in the collection. Mr. Darwin, 
speaking of the tinamou in “ The Zoology of the Voyage of 
the Beagle,” states that it approximates somewhat to the 
habits of the grouse, but that it rarely rises from the ground, 
and may be readily caught with a stick having a noose at the 
end. 
The order Steganopodes is composed of birds having all four 
toes fully connected by webs. They all have a more or less 
developed throat pouch; live upon fish, which they follow 
and catch in its native element, and are rarely found far from 
the sea-coast. Among the American representatives of the 
group which are usually to be found here, or in the 
creek behind the Deer Park, are the Common Gan- 
net ( Sula bassana) and the Booby Gannet {S. fiber), 
found along the Atlantic coast, the latter rarely ranging as 
