. Birds: the elements of ornithology . ■^ The Black-breasted Hemipode {Tumix taigoor). can easily be distinguished from the latter by their not having-any hind toe. They are found from China to Australia, inIndia, Southern Europe, and in Africa. The Black-breastedHemipode (2\{TOia; toig^oor) may serve as a type. The specieswhich inhabits Spain {T. sylvatica) has even strayed as far Birds known as Sand-grouse are so unlike trae ELEMENTS OE OENITHOLOGT. Grrouse that their English name is misleading. They constitute:the two genera termed Pterocles and Sytrhccptes. The one which
. Birds: the elements of ornithology . ■^ The Black-breasted Hemipode {Tumix taigoor). can easily be distinguished from the latter by their not having-any hind toe. They are found from China to Australia, inIndia, Southern Europe, and in Africa. The Black-breastedHemipode (2\{TOia; toig^oor) may serve as a type. The specieswhich inhabits Spain {T. sylvatica) has even strayed as far Birds known as Sand-grouse are so unlike trae ELEMENTS OE OENITHOLOGT. Grrouse that their English name is misleading. They constitute:the two genera termed Pterocles and Sytrhccptes. The one whichis found in Spain (Pterocles arenarius) may be considered thetype. These Birds are inhabitants of Asia and Africa, but onespecies, Pallass Sand-grouse (Syrrhaptes paradocms), sometimeB. Pallass Sand-grouse {Byrrhaptes paradoxus). migrates to Europe and into our own country. It first did so invery large numbers in 1863, and it seemed as if it wouldbecome a truly British Bird—a very interesting fact as bearing Iupon the general question of the geographical distribution ot\species. Nevertheless it has now disappeared. ■ A certain superficial resemblance, at the least, has been recog-nized as existing amongst all the Birds which have been as yetherein noticed by us. As the type of this assemblage may betaken that form yith which we started, the Fowl; and as thegeneric name of the Eowl is Oallus, this whole assemblage orgroup of species have been, and still are, very commonly spoken;of as Gallinaceous Birds. Only less familiar than the Common Fowl is the Pigeon, whichforms the type of another smaller, though still considerable,group of very attractive Birds, the close resemblance of whichto one another must strike the most casual observer. They arefruit-eating and gra
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