ORDERS OF BIRDS (COUES). 



Passeres, the perching, sparrow-like birds. 



Picariae, birds of such nature as the cuckoos and the 

 humming-birds, very much unlike each other, but also 

 quite unlike the passerine birds, and really put into a class 

 together because they will not fit anywhere else. 



Psittaci, parrot-like birds. 



Raptores, the birds of prey. 



Columbae, doves and their relatives. 



Gallinae, the game birds. 



Limicolae, the shore birds. 



Herodiones, the herons and the stork-like birds. 



Alectorides, the swamp or marsh birds. 



Longipennes, the long- winged swimmers. 



Lamellirostres, duck-like and goose-like birds. 



Steganopodes, seashore birds with full- webbed feet. 



Pygopodes, diving birds. 



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