THE BIRDS OF NORTH AND 

 MIDDLE AMERICA 



By Egbert Ridgway, continued by Herbert Friedmann 



Part IX 



Order GRUIFORMES: Cranelike Birds 



<Fulicariae Nitzsch, Meckel's Deutsch. Arch. Phys., 1820, 263 (Ralli-j- 

 Gruidae). — Sclatee and Saxvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, viii, 139 

 (Ralli+Heliornithes+Aramidae). — Shtjfeldt, Anat. Rec, ix, 1915, 606 

 ( Hellornithes+Ralli+ Aramidae) . 



<Alectorides Nitzsch, Obs. Av. Art. Carot. Com., 1829, 17 (Cariamae+ 

 Otides). — ScLATEB and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, viii, 141 (Eury- 

 pyges+Cariamae+Psophiidae). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water 

 Birds North Amer., i, 1884, 350 (Ralli + Grues). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 332 (Aramidae+Gruidae+Eury- 

 pygidae). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, xii, 236 (Eurypyges+ 

 Grues+Otides). 

 XAlectorides Nitzsch, Syst. Pterylogr., 1840 ( Grues 4-Cariamae+ Otides-f- 

 Palamedeae). 



<Grues Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., ii, 1857 [1854], 97 (Grues+Cariamse). — 

 Beddard, Struct, and Classif. Birds, 1898, 366 (Grues+Cariamae+ 

 Eurypygeae). 



<Geranomorpli8e Huxley, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, 457 (Ralli+Grues+ 

 Rhinochetidae+Otides?+Cariamae). — Sclateb and Salvin, Nom. Av. 

 Neotr., 1873, viii, 139 (Ralli+Heliornithes+Aramidae). — Salvin and God- 

 man, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves., iii, 1903, 314 ( Ralli +Heliornithes+ Grues). 



<Gruoide8e Stejneger, Stand. Nat. Hist., iv, 1885, 121 (Grues+Ralli). 



<Grues aberrantes Miller, (W. DeW.), Bull, Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, xxxiv, 

 1915, 133 (Cariamae+Psophiidse+Eurypyges+Heliornithes). 



<PaludicoliB American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, 138 ; ed. 3, 

 1910, 100 (Grues+Ralli).— Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 2, 134 

 (Grues+Ralli). 



<Gruiformes Furbringer, Unters. Morph. Syst. Vog., 1888, 1566 (Eurypygeae+ 

 Grues+Cariamae). — Sharpe. Rev. Rec. Att. Classif. Birds, 1891, 74; Hand- 

 list, i, 1899, xvii, 176 (Grues+Eurypygeae+Cariamae). 



=Gruiformes Gadow, Classif. Vertebr., 1898, 34 (Ralli+Grues+Cariamae+ 

 Otides+Eurypygeae+Heliornithes). — Wetmore, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 Ixxvi, art. 24, 1930, 4 ; Smiths. Misc. Coll., Ixxxix, No. 13, 1934, 6 ; xcix, No. 7, 

 1940, 6.— Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 141. 



