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Garrod's view of the position of the Flamingoes seems to me to be 

 one of the most unnatural that has been published up to the present 

 time. They are placed in his ''Cohort B" of his Order Galli- 

 FORMES of his Subclass Homalogonat.?;, thus : 



Cohort (B) Gallinace^. 

 Family i. Palamedeidae. 



2. Gallinoe. 



3. Rallidie. 



4. Otididse. 

 Subfamily i. Otidince. 



2 . Phxnicopteriim. 

 Family 5. Musophagidse. 

 6. Cuculidse. 

 Subfamily i. Centropodince. 

 2 . CucuIiiuF. 

 Dr. Sclater arrayed them as an Order (VIII) Odontoglossre, stand- 

 ing between the Herodiones and Palamede;^ ; the latter being fol- 

 lowed by the Anseres (Order X). 



Professor Alfred Newton believed that " the PJiccnicopteri so much 

 resemble the Anseres in certain points that they should form a Suborder 

 of that group, equal in value to the true Anseres and the Palamedece. 

 Reichenow places them in his Order (VII) Gressores as a family 

 (28) between the Ciconiidce (27) and the Scopidce (29), while Stejne- 

 ger creates a superfamily for them, the Phcenicopteroidece , of his Order 

 (VIII) Chenomorphse, which last is followed by the Order (IX) 

 Herodii. 



Dr. Fiirbringer places the two families Paheolodidce and Pha'nicop- 

 teridcc, as one of the "Gens" (Phrenicopteri) of his Suborder 

 Ciconiiformes of the Order Pelargornithes ; and Mr. Seebohm 

 gives us the following, extracted from his classification : 



Subclass. Order. Suuurder. 



23. Palamedae. 

 Lamellirostres \ 24. Anseres. 



^ (25. rhcenicopteri. 



Gallo-Grallix: 26--;2. 



Doctor Bowdler Sharpe places them as an Order Phcenicopteri- 

 formes (XXI) between the Orders Pelargiformes (XX) and An- 

 SERIFORMES (XXII), which is quite in keeping with the prevalent 

 opinion of the present time. On the other hand Gadow places the 



