The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . Fig., no.—Si. GRALL^. 231 The Gouras {Lophi/rus, Vieillot)—Approximate the ordinary Gallinacece more than the other subgenera, by their more elevated tarsi andgregarious habits, finding their food more on the ground, and never [not so habitually] perching. Theirl)eak is slender and flexible, [and their anatomy precisely that of the others]. One species is even allied to the Ga/lhiacea by the caruncles and other naked parts about the head (the C. carun-lulata.
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . Fig., no.—Si. GRALL^. 231 The Gouras {Lophi/rus, Vieillot)—Approximate the ordinary Gallinacece more than the other subgenera, by their more elevated tarsi andgregarious habits, finding their food more on the ground, and never [not so habitually] perching. Theirl)eak is slender and flexible, [and their anatomy precisely that of the others]. One species is even allied to the Ga/lhiacea by the caruncles and other naked parts about the head (the C. carun-lulata. Tern.) Another, at least, approaches them in size, which almost equals that of a Turkey,—the Crowned Pigeon of theIndian Archipelago (C coronaia, Gm.).—Entirely of a slaty-blue, with some chestnut and white on the wings; thehead adorned with a vertical longitudinal crest of thinly-barbed feathers. It is bred in the poultry-yards of Java,&c., but refuses to propagate in Europe. It is to this species that the names Goura and Lophyrus espe-cially apply. A third approximates the Poultry by the long pendent feathers of its neck, somewhat
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