THE BIRDS OF 

 NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 



Commenced by the late Robert Ridgway; continued by Herbert Friedmann 



Part X 



Order GALLIFORMES: Fowllike Birds 



Gallinae Forster, Enchiridion, 1788, 36. 



t=GaHinae Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 594, 609. 



<Gallinae Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 135. — Elliot, Stand. Nat. 

 Hist., iv, 1885, 197. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, 

 167; ed. 3, 1910, 134.— Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 184.— 

 Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, xi, 33. — Salvin and God- 

 man, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1902, 270. 

 XGallinacei Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 49 (Alectorides+Cracidse-|-Crypturi-|- 



Pterocles). 

 ><[Gallinacei] Nupidedes Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 50 (excludes Tetraonidae; in- 

 cludes Crypturi). 

 Giratores ou Gallinacees Blainville, Journ. Phys., Ixxxiii, 1816, 252 (sub- 

 order I. Brevicaudes; H. Longicaudes). 

 Gradatores ou Gallinaces Blainville, Bull. Soc. Phil., 1816, 110 (I. Longi- 

 caudes; n. Brevicaudes). 



=Phasianidae Bonaparte, Saggio Distr. Anim. Vertebr., 1831, 54. 



>Alectoromorph3e Huxley, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, 459 (includes Hemi- 

 podii and Pterocletes). 



>Rasores Carus, Handb. Zool., i, 1868-75, 317 (includes Pterocletes, Hemipodii, 

 and Opisthocomi). 



^Rasores Reichenow, Vog. Zool. Gart., 1882; Die Vogel, i, 1913, 270. 



>Galli£ormes Gadow, Classif. Vertebr., 1898, 33 (includes Mesoenatidae, Hemi- 

 podii). — Knowlton, Birds of the World, 1909, 49, 263 (includes Mesoena- 

 tidae and Hemipodii). 



fc=Gallidae Furbringer, Bijd. Dierkunde, ii, 1888 (Unters. Morph. Syst. Vog.), 

 1567. 



i:=Galliformes Furbringer, Bijd. Dierkunde, ii, 1888 (Unters. Morph. Syst. Vog.), 

 1567.— Sharpe, Rev. Rec. Att. Classif. Birds, 1891, 68; Hand-list, i, 1899, x, 

 12.— Wetmore, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ixxvi, art. 24, 1930, 3; Smiths. Misc. 

 Coll., Ixxxix, No. 13, 1934, 6; xcix. No. 7, 1940, 5. — American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union, Check-list, ed. 4, 1931, 78. — Peters, Check-list Birds of World, 

 ii, 1934, 3. — Hellmayer and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 114. 



>Kolobathrornithes Boetticher, Verb. Orn. Ges. Bay., xvii, 1927, 190 (includes 

 rails, cranes, bustards, gallinaceous birds, shorebirds, pratincoles, gulls, and 

 terns). 



