Vögel. 3] 
weil das in so allgemeinen Zügen hingeworfene System etwa frei von 
Missgriffen wäre, sondern weil hier zum ersten Male Ziele und Wege 
eines natürlichen Systemes der Vögel angebahnt worden sind. 
Huxley. 1367. 
| T. H. Huxley. On the classification of Birds, and on the taxonomic 
value of the modification of certain of the cranial bones observable in 
that Class. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 415—472. 
Order I. ‘ Saururae, Häckel. 
1. Genus. Archaeopteryx. 
- II. Ratitae, Merrem. 
1. Group. 1. Genus. Struthio. 
2: - le - Rhea. 
ö. - T. - Casuarius. 
2: - Dromaeus. 
4. - 18 - Dinornis. 
5. - 1: - Apteryx. 
- 11I. v Carinatae, Merrem. 
I. Suborder. „Dromaeognathae. 
1. Family. Tinamidae. 
ir - Schizognathae. 
1. Group. v Charadriomorphae. 
1. Family. Charadriidae. 
2 - Scolopacidae. 
2. - (eranomorphae. 
1. Family. Gruidae. 
Intermediate forms: Psophia, 
Rhinochetus. 
2, - Rallidae. 
Intermediate forms:  Otis, 
Cariama. 
B% - Cecomorphae. 
1. Family. Laridae. 
2 - Procellariidae. 
3. - Colymbidae. 
4. - Alcidae. 
- Spheniscomorphae. 
- Alectoromorphae. 
Turnicomorphae. 
- Pteroclomorphae. 
- Heteromorphae (Opisthocomus). 
- Peristeromorphae. 
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