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Title: The Cambridge natural history
Identifier: cambridgenatural19harm (find matches)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Harmer, Sidney Frederic, 1862-; Shipley, A. E. (Arthur Everett), Sir, 1861-1927
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: (London, Macmillan and Co. , limited; New York : The Macmillan, Company
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igo GALLIFORMES structure from Turnix by the presence of ;i small hind-toe. The lax upper plumage is, in the female, reddish-ln'own with l)lack barring and buff margins to the feathers, the lower parts being pale buff marked with l^lack. A broad white collar spotted with black surrounds the neck, while a rust-coloured nape and
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Fig. 43.ââ " Plain-Wanderer." Pedionornvs torquatus. x i. chest distinguish the above sex from the male, where the collar is brown and buff. This curious bird, somewhat smaller than a Quail, inhabits grassy plains in Southern and Eastern Australia, prefer- ring the wilder districts. The habits are much as in Turnix, but the nest seems never to be domed, the four eggs being of a light stone-colour, thickly freckled and blotched with brown and grey. Fam. IV. Megapodiidae.âThe Megapodes, or Mound-builders, commence the' section Peristeropodes (p. 186) of the Sub-Order Galli. The bill is short, stout, and arched, though rather slender in Megapodius ; the feet are exceptionally strong, and enormous for the size of the lairds, Lvpoa having the smallest; while the metatarsi are usually scutellated, but are reticulated anteriorly in Meg(icep)hcdon, which has comparatively short and blunt claws. The abbreviated wings have ten primaries and some six secondaries. The tail is long and rounded in Talcgallus and Lipoa, with upper coverts extending to the tip in the latter; it is short but still rounded in Mcgapodius ; long and obcordate when expanded in Cathcturus, Aepiypodius, and Mcgacephcdon. The rectrices number twelve in Megapodius,QiyiiQQix in Lipoa, Talc-

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