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Order XIX. GRUIFORMES. 



Suborder xxxi. Grues*. (Nearly Cosmopolitan, but absent in 

 Neotropical Region.) 



Suborder xxxii. Arami f- (Neotropical.) 



Suborder xxxiii. Rhinochetides J. (Confined to New Caledonia.) 



Suborder xxxiv. Mesitides §. (Confined to Madagascar.) 



Suborder xxxv. Eurypygae ||. (Neotropical.) 



Suborder xxxvi. Psophiae^. (Neotropical.) 



Suborder xxxvii. Dicholophi **. (Neotropical.) 



* Maxillo-palatines not coalesced with each other or with the vomer ; nasals schizo- 

 rhinal ; dorsal vertebrae heteroccBlous ; no notches on posterior margin of sternum ; 

 no powder-down patches ; four bare tracts on the body extending for some distance up 

 the neck ; oil-gland tufted. ( Cf. Seebohm, t. c. p. 39.) For convolutions of trachea in 

 some species, cf. Stejneger, t. c. p. 123. Nest on the ground or in shallow water. 

 Eggs double-spotted, light, with reddish-brown spots. Young, when hatched, covered 

 with light down and soon able to run. 



t Maxillo-palatines not coalesced with each other or with the vomer; nasals 

 schizorhinal ; dorsal vertebrae heterocoelous ; sternum with no posterior notches ; 

 no powder-down patches ; oil-gland tufted ; four bare tracts on the body, extending 

 some way up the neck. {Cf. Seebohm, t. c. p. 39.) {Cf. also Stejneger, t. c. p. 127.) 

 Nest among rushes in a marsh. Eggs ten or twelve ; "large as a Tm-key's, slightly 

 elliptical, sparsely marked with blotches of pale brown and purple on a dull white 

 ground, the whole egg having a powdered or floury appearance " (Hudson, in Argent. 

 Orn. ii. p. 160). 



X Maxillo-palatines not coalesced with each other or with the vomer ; nasals schizo- 

 rhinal ; dorsal vertebraj heterocrelous ; sternum with no posterior notch ; oil-gland 

 nude ; a powder-do^vn patch on each side of the rump ; four bare body-tracts extending 

 some Avay up the neck. {Cf. Seebohm, t. c. p. 39.) {Cf. also Stejneger, t. c. p. 118.) 

 Nesting-habits and egg unknown. 



§ Maxillo-palatines not coalesced with each other or with the vomer ; nasals schizo- 

 rhinal ; dorsal vertebrae heterocoelous ; sternum with a deep notch on each side of 

 the posterior margin ; oil-gland nude ; five pairs of powder-down patches on different 

 parts of the body ; four bare tracts on the body, extending for some distance up the neck. 

 {Cf. Seebohm, t. c. p. 39.) Nests and eggs not authentically known. 



II Maxillo-palatines not coalesced with each other or with the vomer ; nasals schizo- 

 rhinal ; dorsal vertebrte heterocoelous ; sternum with a notch on each side of the 

 posterior margin ; oil-gland nude ; powder-down patches present ; none of the bare 

 tracts of the body extending beyond the base of the neck. {Cf. Seebohm, t. c. p. 39.) 

 {Cf. also Stejneger, t. c. p. 116.) Egg like that of a Woodcock. Nestling Plover-Uke 

 and covered with down. Young birds fed by parents for some weeks after they are 

 hatched. 



^ Palate schizognathous ; nasals holorhinal ; dorsal vertebrae heterocoelous ; 

 episternal process not perforated to receive the feet of the coracoids : posterior pro- 

 cesses of the ilia separated sufficientlj- to show a broad sacrum ; sternum with no 

 notch on the posterior margin; long lateral bare tracts on sides of neck. {Cf. 

 Seebohm, t. c. p. 40, and Stejneger, t. c. p. 123.) Nest on the ground. 



** Palate schizognathous ; nasals holorhinal ; dorsal vertebrae heterocoelous ; 

 episternal process not perforated to receive the feet of the coracoids ; posterior process 



