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Pl. XXX.
Pl. XXXI.

33. Odontophorus Columbianus

 

34. uae strophium
30.) ee lineolatus ‘ : : : : : Pl. 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-flavoured.

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