40 CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS. 
Suborder 29. FULICARIZ. 
The Rails and their allies really belong to the same group as the Cranes and their 
allies, but for convenience they may be allowed to form a separate section characterized 
by their holorhinal nasals, The Holorhinal Gralle or Fulicarie may be diagnosed as 
follows :— 
A, Palate schizognathous. B. Young born covered with down, and able to run in a few 
hours. ©. Nasals holorhinal. D. Dorsal vertebre heteroccelous. EE. Episternal 
process not perforated to receive the feet of the coracoids. F. Posterior processes 
of the ilia separated sufficiently to show a broad sacrum. 















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The Fulicarie include the following families :— 
Sternum with two notches on each side of the posterior margin. No lateral bare tracts 
on neck. 
Otidide.—No hallux ; no oil-gland. 
Opisthocomide.—Hallux large ; oil-gland tufted. 
Sternum with one notch on each side of the postericr margin. 
Cariamide.—No lateral bare tracts on neck ; oil-gland nude. 
Heliornithide.—No lateral bare tracts on neck ; oil-gland tufted. 
Rallide.—Long lateral bare tracts on neck; oil-gland tufted. 
Sternum with no notch on posterior margin. 
Psophiide.—Long lateral bare tracts on neck. 
