WADING /-•/.. 





it enters a cavity in the breast-bone, makes a turn and ter- 

 minates in the lungs, after forming a larg 



To this group, or next to it. also belong the flaming 

 the American flamingo ( Pha nicopU rus ml ■ r) occurrin| 



Florida and Gulf coast. Its feathers arc scarlet, its bill 

 yellow, large and thick, while the legs and neck arc of great 

 ■ h. It connects the swimming with the wading birds. 

 The foregoing lti< >ii p forms a division called the Natai 

 or swimming birds. 



Order 5. Grallatores (Wading birds). — These have I 



Fig. •j."ij .— .\ From Ltttkei 



naked legs, and therefore long necks, with usually remark- 

 ably long bills. They are divided into cranes, ra -. 

 (Alectorides), the herons and their allies (Herodiones), and 

 the Bhore-birds, snipes and plovers, or Lim 



In the cranes, I igether with rails (P sana Carolina, 

 Fig. 258), the toes are often long, and in some forms, such 

 as the coots and gallinules, which have lobate feet, there 

 is an approach to the ducks. The coot ( Full 

 connects the Bwimming with the wading birds. The bill 

 is much as in the gallinules, but the toes are lobate, having 

 large semicircular membranous flaps; hence they can swim 

 like the greb< 3, 



