THE OREGON NATURALIST. 
EASTERN DEPARTMENT. 
CONDUCTED BY THE ASSOCIATE EDITOR 
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Continued from page 122, 
Before considering the different individuals 
of the order of Longifennes or long-winged 
swimmers, it will be well to glance somewhat 
su erficially at the anatomical peculiarities, or 
rather Characteristics. The wings in a typlcal 
Lowngipenne will be long and pointed, reaching 
when closed to the base, and in many cases 
beyond, the base of the tail, and in some cases 
he tar 3s 
usually rather lengthened than otherwise and 
oftenest of twelve rectrices. 
even beyond the ezd of the tail, 
The legs are 
perfectly below the center of gravity when the 
The tibize are 
naked below and the anterior toes palmate. 
bird is in a horizontal position. 
This order, which may be recognized among 
web-footed birds by the foregoing external 
characters, is rather less substantially put to- 
gether than either of the two preceeding groups 
