. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. POULTRY. ^i%t CURASSOWS AND GUANS. , EAVING the pigeons, we now come to the large and important order of birds, termed scientilically the Gallinge, and, more popularly, the Poultry. Sometimes they are termed Rasores, or scrapers, from their habit of scraping up the ground in search of food. To this order belong our domestic poultry, the grouse, par- tridges, and quails, the turkeys, pheasants, and many other useful and interest- ing birds. In almost every instance the Gallinse are handso
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. POULTRY. ^i%t CURASSOWS AND GUANS. , EAVING the pigeons, we now come to the large and important order of birds, termed scientilically the Gallinge, and, more popularly, the Poultry. Sometimes they are termed Rasores, or scrapers, from their habit of scraping up the ground in search of food. To this order belong our domestic poultry, the grouse, par- tridges, and quails, the turkeys, pheasants, and many other useful and interest- ing birds. In almost every instance the Gallinse are handsome birds, and inter- esting in their habits, but as their number is legion, and our space is rapidly diminishing, we must content ourselves with such species as afford the best types of the order to which they CRESTED CUEASSOW.— Crar aleclor. Our first example of these birds is the Crested Curassow, the representative of the ^enus Crax, in which are to be found a number of truly splendid birds. All the Curassows •are natives of tropical America, and are found almost wholly in the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889; Holder, Joseph B. (Joseph Bassett), 1824-1888; Prang, Louis, 1824-1909, lithographer; Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884; Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. Illustrated natural history; National Zoological Park (U. S. ), former owner. DSI. New York : Selmar Hess
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