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GARROD included with the Columbse Pterodes, which I 

 treat of separately. Accordingly, in quoting his classification 

 of the group, 1 I term families what he termed subfamilies. 

 For him the group contained two families, viz. Columbidse 

 and Pteroclidae. The following is, with the alterations 

 referred to, GARROD'S scheme of division of the group : 



Family I. Columbidae. Columbae with ambiens, caeca, oil 

 gland, no gall bladder, and 12 rectrices. 



Genera : Columba, Turtur, Macropygia, Ectopistes, 

 L ep top til a , la ntJi'ii as. 



Family II. Phapidae. Columbae with ambiens and no 

 caeca. 



Division A. Oil gland present, no gall bladder. 

 Genera : CTiam&pelia. 

 Metriopelia. 

 Zeiiaida, Zenaidura. 



Geotrygon. A^T^ 



Peri&tera. 

 Catenas. I* (LIBRARY 



Ch a Ico-pclin. \5^ 



Tympanistria. 



Ocyphaps. 



Leucosarcia. 



Pliaps. 

 Division B. The oil gland and gall bladder present. 



Genus Carpophaga. 

 Division C. The accessory femoro-caudal absent ; oil 



gland and gall bladder present. 

 Genus Lopholcemus. 



Division D. Oil gland and gall bladder absent. 

 Genus 



Family III. Treronidse. Columbas without ambiens. 



Division A. With caeca and oil gland ; no gall bladder. 

 Genus Phlog<ri///x. 



1 ' On some Points in the Anatomy of the Columbse,' P. Z. 8. 1874, p. 249, 



and ' Notes on Two Pigeons,' &c.. ibid. 1875, p. 307. 



