CATALOGUE 



or 



BIRDS. 



Order XII. LIMICOL,E. 



Palate schizognathous. 



Nostrils schizorhinal (except in the (Eclicnemidce and the genus 

 Pluvianus). 



Bill simple (except in the Chionididce). 



Cervical vertebra 15 (except in the (Edicnemido? and the Parndce). 



Coraco-humeral groove distinct. 



Furcula with hypocleidium. 



Primaries eleven. Fifth secondary wanting (hence the wing 

 aquintocubital). 



Oil-gland tufted. „.,.«. 



Aftershaft to the contour-feathers present. Spinal feather-tract 

 well-defined on the neck and forked on the upper body, with lateral 

 l")3.r6 tructs 



Hallux, if present, connected with the flexor longus hallucis, and 

 never with the flexor perforata digitorum. 



Toes only partially webbed, or not webbed at all. 



Young covered with close and fluffy down, and able to run shortly 

 after bcimr hatched. 



Eggs variable in colour, generally clay-brown, mottled or spotted 

 or scribbled all over with black, but in Dromas white ! 



{Of. Gadow, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 246.) 



