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AXNAI.S OF THE CaRNEGIE jMuSEUM. 



and I believe with Professor Newton that it meets the ideas of the 

 majority of systematists, and I may add, what is more important, the 

 ideas of most avian mor])hologists. 



Of the Liinicohv, this great suborder of birds, widely known as the 

 "plover-snipe" group, and in the main constituting the Charadrio- 

 morpha^ of Professor Huxley (P. Z. S. 1867, p. 457), Coues has said, 

 that *' Most of the families of this order are well represented in this 

 country, and will be found fully characterized beyond. The position 

 of Parridcz is in cjuestion, and it probably belongs here rather than 

 among the families where it is ranged \_Alectorides\ . There are 

 several outlying or inosculating families in the vicinity of Limicolce and 

 Alectorides, of uncertain position. The largest of these is the Bustard 

 family, Oiididcv, which connects Liniicohv and Alectoridcs so perfectly, 

 that its position has long wavered between these two orders ; the 

 balance of evidence favors its reference to the latter. The typical 

 families are Charadriida and Scolopacidce.'" ("Key" 2d ed., pp. 



596, 597-) 



In these remarks Coues says nothing about his having placed the 

 Herodiones between the Limicol^ and the Alectorides in the work 

 cited, which he has done, and his remarkable classification of the latter 

 group is too well known to call for any comment here. 



Professor Max Furbringer in his great work upon the Morphology of 

 Birds arranges the Liniicohr in the followina: manner. 



c A 



ns .-J 



S. O. CHARA- 

 DRIIFORMES. 



G. S. LAT. 



Laro-Limi- 



COL.«. 



G. PARR.-E. 



G. Oxides. 



G. S. STR. 



Charadrii. 



F. Charadriidre. 

 F. s. str. Glareo- 



lidce. 

 F. s. str. Droma- 



didae. 

 F. Chionididre. 

 F. Laridoe. 

 F. Alcidre. 

 F. Thinocoridre. 

 F. Parridie. 

 F. (Jidicnemidae. 

 F. Otididte. 



Dr. R. l-jowdler Sharpe in his " Hand List of Birds" (1899) con- 

 siders them as an Order, (XV.), Charadriiformes, and places them 

 between the Larif^ormes, (Order XIV.) and the Gruiformes, (Order 

 XVI.). He divides the Charadriiformes into no less than seven 

 Suborders, namely the Chionides, the Attagides, the Charadrii, the 

 Parrai, the Cunsorii, the (Edicnemi, and the Otides, and these names 

 will sufficiently indicate the families of birds this author considers to 



