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ee. Feet pamprodactylous Pamprodactylse (extraliinital).o 



dd. Dorsal pteryla forked between shoulders. 

 e. Feet syndactyle or eleutherodactyle, the flexor tendons of type Va, or 

 outer toe reversible; spina externa sterni well developed; syrinx 

 tracheo-bronchial; only one (the left) carotid artery; young gymno- 



psedic Coraciae (extralimital).^ 



ee. Feet anisodactyle, the flexor tendons of type Va (as in Macrochires), the 

 outer toe n'ever reversible; spina externa sterni vestigial; primaries 10; 

 two carotid arteries, syrinx bronchial, and young ptilopsedic (as in 



Striges.) Nycticoraciae (to be included in Part VI). 



aa. Feet desmopelmous and raptorial, the flexor tendons of type I; coracoids con- 

 nected; hypotarsus simple; myological formula A; two carotid arteries; cseca 

 long; syrinx bronchial; aftershaft absent or (rarely) rudimentary; primaries 

 11; young ptilopsedic Nyctiharpages (to be included in Part VI). 



Suborder MACROCHIRES. 

 HUMMING BIRDS AND SWIFTS. 



= Macrochires Nitzsch, Obs. Av. art. carot. com., 1829, 15; Syst. Pterylog., 1840, 

 122.— Beddard, Struct, and Classif. Birds, 1898, 224. 



'^Macrochires Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1800, 3 (includes Capri- 

 mulgidseand Steatornithidse). — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862,278 (includes 

 Caprimulgidai).— Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, 463 (includes Capri- 

 mulgidae and Steatornithidee). 



= Makrochires (emendation) Furbringer, Unters. Morph. Syst. Vog., 1888, 1567. 



"^Strisores Cabanis in Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Naturg., 1847, pt. i, 308, 345, 

 346 (includes Caprimulgidae, Opisthocomidee, and Musophagidaj!). 



yCypselomorphx Huxley, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 468 (includes Capri- 

 mulgidae). 



= Cypseliformes Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, 118. 



= Micropodii Knowlton, Bii'ds of the World, 1909, 50. 



= Micropodoidex Stejneger, Stand. Nat. Hist., iv, 1885, 435, in text. 



= Micropodoidei Cope, Am. Nat., xxiii, 1889, 871, 872, 873. 



= Cypseli (not of Ridgway, 1881) Gadow, Bronn's Thier-Reichs, Vog., iii, 1893, 

 245, 301; Classif. Vertebr., 1898, 37. 



a=Coliomorphx (not of Sundevall, 1856) Murie, Ibis, July, 1872, 278.= Paviprodac- 

 tylx Murie, Ibis, iii, April, 1873, 190, ioot-noie^ Colioidex Stejneger, Stand. Nat. 

 Hist., iv, 1885, 371, 393, in text. = CoK Furbringer, Unters. Morph. Syst. Vog., ii, 

 1888, 1567; Sharpe, Rev. Classif. Birds, 1891, 82; Hand-list, ii, 1900, 145; Gadow, in 

 Bronn's Thier-Reichs, Vog., ii, 1893, 252, .301; Classif. Vertebr., 1898, pp. xv, 37.— 

 Beddard, Struct, and Classif. Birds, 1898, 201; Knowlton, Birds of the World, 1909, 

 50. = Colioidei Cope, Am. Nat., xxiii, Oct., 1889, 871, 873. 



The Pamprodactylse comprise a single family, Coliidaa (the Colies), represented by 

 the genera Colius and Urocolius only, and are peculiar to the Ethiopian Region. 



i<iCoraciadx Gray, Gen. Birds, i, June, 1845, 61; Hand-List, i, 1869, lb.—=Coracix 

 Furbringer, Unters. Morph. Syst. Vog., ii, 1888, 1567.— <Coracia? Sharpe, Rev. Classif. 

 Birds, 1891, 79 (=Coraciid8e); Hand-list, ii, 1900, 45.—<Leptosoviati Sharpe, Rev. 

 Classif. Birds, 1891, 79 (=Leptosomatid8e); Hand-list, ii 1900, 45. = Coraciidx Gadow, 

 Classif. Vertebr., 1898, 3Q. = Coracix Furbringer, Uebers. Syst. Morph. Vog., ii, 1888, 

 1567. 



An exclusively Old World group, comprising the families Coraciidoe and Leptoso- 

 matid£e, the former common to the Ethiopian, Indian, Indo-Malayan, and Austro- 

 Malayan Subregions, the latter peculiar to Madagascar. 



