SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 89 



Order Galli formes, Megapodes, Curassows, Pheasants, Hoat- 

 zins. 

 Suborder Galli, Megapodes, Curassows, Grouse, Pheasants. 

 Superfamily Cracoidea, Megapodes, Curassows. 

 Family Megapodiidae, Megapodes. 



Gallinuloididae, Gallinnloides (fossil). 

 Cracidae, Curassows, Guans, Chachalacas. 

 Superfamily Phasianoidea, Grouse, Pheasants, Turkeys. 

 Family Tetraonidae, Grouse. 



Phasianidae,' Quails, Pheasants, Peacocks. 

 Numididae, Guinea-fowl. 

 Meleagrididae, Turkeys. 

 Suborder Opisthocomi, Hoatzins. 



Family Opisthocomidae, Hoatzins. 

 Order Gruiformes, Cranes, Rails, and Allies. 

 Suborder Mesoenatides, Roatelos, Monias. 



Family Mesoenatidae, Roatelos, Monias. 

 Suborder Turnices, Bustard-quails, Hemipodes. 

 Family Turnicidae, Bustard-quails. 



Pedionomidae, Collared Hemipodes. 

 Suborder Grues, Cranes, Limpkins, Trumpeters, Rails. 

 Superfamily Gruoidea, Cranes, Limpkins, Trumpeters. 

 Family Geranoididae, Geranoides (fossil). 

 Eogruidae, Eo^rMj- (fossil). 

 Gruidae, Cranes. 

 Aramidae, Limpkins. 

 Psophiidae, Trumpeters. 

 Superfamily Ralloidea, Rails. 



Family Orthocnemidae,*" OrtJiocnemus, ElapJirocncmus 

 (fossil). 

 Rallidae, Rails, Coots, Gallinules. 

 Suborder Heliornithes, Sun-grebes. 



Family Heliornithidae, Sun-grebes. 

 Suborder Rhynocheti, Kagus. 



Family Rhynochetidae, Kagus. 

 Suborder Eurypygae, Sun-bitterns. 



Family Eurypygidae, Sun-bitterns. 



' Includes the quails, formerly recognized as the family Perdicidae. 

 * Position provisional. See Lambrecht, Handbuch der Palaeornithologie, 1933, 

 pp. 490-493- 



