Excerpt from A Hand-Book to the Game-Birds, Vol. 2 The second volume of this work contains an account of all the remaining species of the Order Gallinae or True game-birds, as well as that curious and aberrant form the Hoatzin, and the bustard-quails. 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.