ILLUSTRATIONS 



OF 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 



ORDER IV. 

 GRALLATORES WADERS. 



IN the system so ably developed by Mr VIGORS, in his 

 Treatise on the Affinities which connect the Orders and Fa- 

 milies of Birds, this constitutes his fourth Order, being ana- 

 logous to the Gr alias of LATHAM and others, and holding 

 the intermediate station between the Rasores or Gallinaceous 

 Birds, and the Natatores or true Aquatics. In addition to 

 the various genera of the order Grallce of other systems, 

 which was placed at the head of the second great Division 

 or Aves Aquatic^ it contains some of the genera arranged 

 in the Order Pinnatipedes of LATHAM, as Fulica, Phala- 

 ropus, &c. and also others which, from the development of 

 the membrane connecting the toes, had been included 

 amongst the Palmipedes or Swimmers, but whose real affi- 

 nities clearly point them out as more intimately connected 

 with the members of this Order ; such are the Genera Phce- 

 nicopterus, Recurvirostra, &c. The five families into which 

 it may be divided, according to the quinary system (placing 



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