

CATALOGUE 



BIRDS. 



Order XIX. CHENOMORPHyE. 



This Order, the name of which has been projiosed by Huxley, 

 comprises all those Carinate birds which combine at least the 

 following two characters :— 



Palate desmognathous ; young covered with down and able to run 

 or swim in a few hours after hatching. 



The other common characters of the group are :— 

 Neck long, without apteria; oil-gland tufted; wings aquinto- 

 cubital; rhamphotheca with ceroma; nares pervious; maxillo- 

 palatines coalesced across the middle line ; mandible much produced 

 and curved upwards behind its articulation with the quadrate ; 

 flexor perforans digitorum leading to all three anterior digits, but 

 not to the hallux ; ambiens muscle present. Eggs white, — Range 

 cosmopolitan. Habits aquatic. 



Synojysis of the Suborders. 



a. No uncinate processes on the ribs ; 



margins of the bill not laminated. 1. PALAMEDEiE, p. 2. 



b. Uncinate processes on the ribs ; 



margins of bill laminated. 

 a'. Tarsus three times the length of 



the femur, scutellatcd in front 



and at back ; bill abruptly bent 



in the middle 2. PHCENICOPTERI, p. 8. 



?/. Tarsus about the length of the 



femur, reticulated at back and 



generally in front ; bill straight, 



always with a distinct nail at 



the tip of the upper mandible. 3. ANSERES, p. 23. 



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