ILLUSTRATIONS 
OF 
BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY. 
ORDER IV. 
GRALLATORES—WADERS. 
In the system so ably developed by Mr Vicors, 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 Gralla of Lariam 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 Gralle of other systems, 
which was placed at the head of the second great Division 
or Aves Aquatica, it contains some of the genera arranged 
in the Order Pinnatipedes of Latuam, 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 Pha- 
nicopterus, Recurvirostra, &c. The five families into which 
it may be divided, according to the quinary system (placing 
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