Order III. CYPSELIFORMES. 



Family MaCeochires. 



Subfamily 1. Cypselince. 

 2. TrochiliiKS. 



Forbes, only four days before his death on the Niger^ wrote in his 

 diary : — " My final idea as to the classification of birds " {cf. Ibis, 1884-, 

 p. 119):- 



Superorder Odontoenithes. 



I. Sam-urae. 1. TIT. Odontoliolcae. 1. 



II. Odoutotormse. 1. 



Superorder Rhynchobnithes. 



IV. 



V. 



VI. 



VII. 



VIII. 



IX. 



X. 



XL 



p 



XII. 



XIII. 



XIV. 



XV. 



Struthiones. 1. 

 Apteryges. 1. 

 Rheje. 1. 

 Ci'ypturi. 1. 

 Galliuee. 3. 

 Opisthocomi. 1. 

 Palamedeee. 1. 

 Eudromades (a). 1 

 Odpntoglossae. 

 Semigallinee. 2. 

 Psittaci. 1. 

 Lamellirostres. 1 . 

 Eretopodes {b). 3. 



XVI. 



XVII. 



XVIII. 



XIX. 



XX. 



XXI. 



XXII. 



XXIII. 



XXIV. 



XXV. 



XXVI. 



xxvn. 



XXVIII. 



Impennes. 1. 

 Tubinares. 2. 

 Pseudogryphi. 1. 

 Herodiones. 3. 

 Accipitres. 1. 

 Steganopodes. 3. 

 Pluviales. 8. 

 Oolumbae. 2. 

 Todiformes. 1. 

 Piciformes (c). 7 

 Coraciiformes. 2 

 Meropiformes. 8. 

 Passeres. 



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(c) Piciformes 



Picidse. 



CapitonidEe. 



Bucerotidge. 



Upupidse. 



(Irrisoridfe ?). 



Alcedinidse. 



Coliidae. 



Momotidae. 



Suborder Pici. 



\ Suborder Halcyones, 



(a) Eudromades. 



Rallidee. 

 PsopliiidsB. 

 . CEdicnemidEe. 

 Otididee. 

 Oariamidse. 

 Serpentariidse. 

 Phoenicopteridae. 



(b) Eretopodes. 



Colymbidse. 



Podicipitidae. 



Helioruithidae. 



As the editors of ' The Ibis ' remark, the numbers placed by Forbes 

 after the names of the Orders evidently denote the number of families 

 comprised in each Order. 



The next Classification of importance was that of Dr. Sclater, pub- 

 lished in ' The Ibis ' for 1880. It depends little on original research, 

 and is, as Sclater himself admits^ mainly a revision of Prof. Huxley's 



