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KEY TO FAMILIES 



Order VI. Odontoglossse. 



FLAMINGOES. 



Long-legged, long-necked, 

 red or pink - and - white 

 birds; bill bent downward, 

 with lateral ridges (Fig. 

 35); toes four, front ones 

 webbed. With the charac- 

 ters of the Order 



F a m i ly Phocnicopteridce: 

 FLAMINGOES, p. 216. 



FIG. 35. 



Order VII. Herodiones. HERONS, STORKS, IBISES, etc. 



Long-legged, wading birds usually found along shores, on muddy flats 

 or in marshes. Herons and Bitterns fly with a fold in the neck; Ibises 

 and Spoonbills with the neck straight. Toes four, slightly or not 

 wobbed, all on the same level; lores bare. 



FIG. 38. 



A. Bill straight and sharply pointed; inner border of middle toe- 



nail with a comblike edge (Fig. 36); neck curved in flight. . . . 

 Family Ardeidce: HERONS, EGRETS, BITTERNS, p. 219. 



B. Bill not sharply pointed, cylindrical or flattened (Figs. 37, 38); 



no comb on toe-nail; neck straight in flight. 



a. Bill rounded, more or less curved downward. 



a 1 . Size large, tarsus over 5'00; whole head bare in adult. . . . 



Family Ciconiida: STORKS and WOOD IBISES, p. 219. 

 a 2 . Size smaller, tarsus under 5*00; face bare (Fig. 37). . . . 



Family Ibididce: IBISES, p. 218. 



b. Bill flattened and much broadened at the end (Fig. 38), our 



species pink. . . . Family Plataleidce; SPOONBILLS, p. 217. 



