A Hand-book to the Game-Birds

# Lloyd's Natural History: Game-Birds, Volume II

This specialized natural history handbook, edited by R. Bowdler Sharpe and authored by W. R. Ogilvie-Grant of the British Museum's Zoological Department, comprises a comprehensive systematic treatment of game-bird species. Volume II covers pheasants (continued from Volume I), megapodes, curassows, hoatzins, and bustard-quails.

The work catalogs 221 species, with descriptions of adult males and females compared against British Museum specimens—a particularly extensive collection. Two species are first described in this volume: Whitehead's Bustard-Quail (Turnix whiteheadi), discovered near Manila, and Cholmley's See-See Partridge from the Soudan and Red Sea region. The text includes taxonomic nomenclature, distribution data, and morphological details organized by genus and species, supplemented by colored plates of representative birds. This represents a definitive monograph of the Order Gallinae and related taxa from the 1890s.