. An Australian bird book : a pocket book for field use. Birds -- Australia Identification. 14 AN AUSTRALIAN BIRD 1 6*Iting Quail (Chestnut-bellied, Least, Dwarf, Swamp), Ex- 4 calfactoria chinensis Uneata, Philippines, Sumatra to A. exc. ; sub-species of Chinese Quail. Noni. r. sivamps Back dark-brown; breast blue-gray; abdomen chestnut; throat black, white bands conspicuous; li oz.; f., dark- brown, spotted black; throat whitish; under barred black. "Weed-seeds, insects. F. 11. Numididae, Guinea-Fowls, 23 sp. E. of bone down the breast. Thus they belong to the sub-class,
. An Australian bird book : a pocket book for field use. Birds -- Australia Identification. 14 AN AUSTRALIAN BIRD 1 6*Iting Quail (Chestnut-bellied, Least, Dwarf, Swamp), Ex- 4 calfactoria chinensis Uneata, Philippines, Sumatra to A. exc. ; sub-species of Chinese Quail. Noni. r. sivamps Back dark-brown; breast blue-gray; abdomen chestnut; throat black, white bands conspicuous; li oz.; f., dark- brown, spotted black; throat whitish; under barred black. "Weed-seeds, insects. F. 11. Numididae, Guinea-Fowls, 23 sp. E. of bone down the breast. Thus they belong to the sub-class, the members of which have a raft-like breast bone. The other living birds were placed in the sub-class the members of which have a keel on the breast bone for the attachment of the wing- muscles. Recently, however, Pycraft, a leading ornithologist, has pro- posed to base the division into sub-classes on the characters of the bones of the palate instead of those of the breast-bone. Thus, he places the sixth family of birds—the Tinamous, of South America—with the ratite birds, to form his primitive group— Palaeognatluie ("old jaw"), while the members of the old sub- class Carinatae, minus the Tinamous, constitute his second divi- sion, the Neognathae ("new jaw"). Mr. Gregory Mathews, the first part of whose projected great work on Australian Birds has just come to hand, has followed Dr. Bowdler Sharpe in accepting this classification, so we must follow too, as Mathews' work will probably be our standard for. 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 Leach, John Albert, 1870-1929; Horn Scientific Expedition (1894). Melbourne : Whitcombe & Tombs
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