work. Unfortunately, he did not give me at the time the equivalents 

 for the succeeding groups, and he died before I could ask him for them. 

 Forbes possessed one advantage over Garrod, which ornithologists 

 who knew both men were not slow to perceive. In addition to his 

 great anatomical knowledge, he was very fond of ornithology pure 

 and simple, and wrote not only monographic essays, such as those on 

 Myzomela and Turnix, but he had got together a large collection of 

 Ploceidce and Cuculidce, which he bequeathed to the British Museum, 

 and on which he had evidently intended to found monographs of 

 these families. He fully recognized the value of studying the life- 

 history and habits of birds, and this doubtless led to his undertaking 

 his successful journey to Pernambuco and his fatal one to the Niger, 

 which ended in his death. 



Garrod^s scheme of classification is here added {cf. P. Z. S. 1874 

 p. 116) :- 



Class AVES, 



Subclass HOMALOGONATM 

 Order I. GALLIFORMES. 



Cohort (a) Struthiones. 



Family 1. Stbuthionid^. 



Subfamily 1. Struthionince. 

 2. Rheince. 

 Family 2. Casuaeiid^, 



3. Apterygidje. 



4. TlNAMID-^. 



Cohort (/3) Gallinaceae. 



Family 1. Palamedeid^. 



2. Gaxlin^. 



3. Rallid^. 



4. OTIDIDiE, 



Subfamily 1. Otidince. 



2. Phcenicoptermie. 

 Family 5. Musophagid^. 

 6, CucrLiD-^. 

 Subfamily 1. Centroimdmce 

 2. Cuculince. 



Cohort (y) Psittaci. 



Order II. ANSERIFORMES. 



Cohort (a) Anseres. 

 Family 1. Anatid^, 



2. Spheniscdd^. 



3. coltmbid^. 



4. podicipid^. 



