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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Game Birds (Pterocletes, Gallinæ, Opisthocomi, Hemipodii) In the Collection of the British Museum Tm: I'teroclctrc or pigeon-grouse form a small but well-marked group containing only 3 genera and 17 species, and appear to have been quite satisfactorily placed in a separate order between the Columba or Pigeons and the Gallium or True Game Birds, for they combine many characters found in both these orders. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.