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Order XXXI. PICIFORMES. 



Suborder Ixxvi. Pici *. (Cosmopolitan, but is absent in Australian 



Regions.) 



Suborder Ixxvii. Bucconest. (Neotropical.) 



Suborder Ixxviii. Galbulae J. (Neotropical.) 



Order XXXII. EURYL.^MI §. (Indian ; Austro-Malayan.) 



Order XXXIII. MENUR^ 1|. (Australian.) 



described in Buccones ; spinal feather-tract well defined on the neck, and forked on 

 the lower (not the upper) back ; ventral feather-tract forked on throat, but not on 

 each side of breast ; oil-gland tufted. {Cf. Shelley, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xix. pp. 1-12.) 

 Nest in hole of tree ; ? parasitic on Barbets and other Picarice (cf. Sharpe's ed, 

 Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 168). Egg white. 



* Palate saurognathous ; vomer slender, pointed, split ; basipterygoid processes 

 absent; man ubrial rostium of sternum bifurcate ; ctecanoue; left carotid only present; 

 feet zygodactyle ; jiexor perforans digitorum as described in the Indicatores ; tongue 

 extensile, long, worm-like, capable of great protrusion, the hyoid coruua extending 

 backwards over the skull (except in Sphyropkus and Xenopicus). Spinal feather-tract 

 well-defined on the neck, and forked on the lower (not the upper) back ; oil-gland 

 tufted; femoro-caudal and semitendinosus muscles present; ambiens and accessory 

 femoro-caudal muscle absent ; tail-feathers 12. Nest in holes. Eggs white. Young 

 hatched helpless, but soon able to climb. {Cf. Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vol. xviii.) 



t Palate desmognathous ; vomer present ; basipterygoid processes absent ; cseca 

 present ; both carotids present ; ambiens muscle present ; tail-feathers 12 ; feet zygo- 

 dactyle ; Jiexor longus diyitortiin as described in the Indicatores ; wing-coverts non- 

 Oscinine (Sundevall) ; spinal feather-tract well defined on the neck, and forked on the 

 lower (not on the upper) back; no clavicular feather-tract; no aftershaft to the 

 contour-feathers; genys rounded ; ventral tract without gular branch; oil-gland nude. 

 Nest in holes. Egg white. {Cf. Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vol. xix. pp. 178-208.) 



J Palate desmognathous ; basipterygoid processes absent ; no vomer ; genys 

 rounded ; ventral feather-tract without gtilar branch ; caeca present ; feet zygodactyle ; 

 Jiexor perforans digitorum leading to third digit only ; Jiexor longus hallucis first sending 

 a tendon to the other plantar, then a second to fourth digit, after which (if hallux 

 present) splitting into two tendons, one leading to the hallux, the other to the second 

 digit ; spinal feather-tract well defined on the neck, and forked on the lower (not on 

 upper) bfick ; a narrow clavicular feather-tract on each side of the breast ; a small after- 

 shaft to the contour-feathers ; oil-gland nude. Nest in holes of banks or of stumps 

 of trees. Eggs two, white. {Cf. Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xix. pp. 161-177.) 



§ Palate segithognathous ; nasals holorhinal ; dorsal vertebrae heterocoelous ; flexor 

 longus hallucis leading to hallux after sending down a tendon to i\i% Jiexor perforans 

 digitor?tjn, which leads to the three front digits ; oil-gland present, but nude. Nest a 

 bulky purse-like structure, of large size. Egg white, or dull white, thickly speckled 

 with minute spots and specks of rusty brown. {Cf Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. 

 pp. 455-470 ; Seebohm, t. c. p. 4.) 



II Nestling thickly covered with down. Furcula complete ; sternum with a slight 

 indentation near the outer edge of posterior margin ; plantar tarsi strongly scutellated ; 

 tail-feathers greatly produced, and mostly devoid of booklets ; tensor patagii brevis 

 muscle Picarian ; intrinsic muscles fastened to the ends of the semi-rings (Acromj'o- 

 tine) ; plantar tendons free, {Cf. Sharpe, Cat. B. xiii. pp. 661-063.) 



