402 My. P. L. Sclater on the present 
Bucconide, Rhamphastids, and Capitonide. To these must 
be added the Indicatoride, which do not occur in the New 
World. Indicator has now been conclusively shown to have 
nothing to do with either the Cuckoos (as supposed by the 
older authors) or with the Woodpeckers (as believed by 
Blyth*), but must form a family of itself, allied to the 
Capitonide +. 
Lastly, I would now propose to place together in one 
group, under the restricted title of “Coccyges,’ the two 
families Cuculidee and Musophagide. I am not yet pre- 
pared to remove them to the neighbourhood of the Gallinze 
altogether, but (as above stated) am ready to allow that 
Prof. Garrod has shown good reasons for separating them 
from the rest of the Zygodactyle. 
Moreover, on the whole, I have come to the conclusion 
that, looking to the successful assaults that have been made 
on Prof. Huxley’s views as to the nature of the palate in the 
Pici and in the Trochilide, it will be a better arrangement to 
sink the Pici and Cypseli to the rank of suborders and to 
revive the term Picarize for the whole of the three groups 
denominated in the ‘Nomenclator’ Pici, Cypseli, and Coc- 
cyges. The Order Picarize may then be divided into the 
following six suborders :— 
Families. Families. 
LINE SB bos ot ec 2 4, Heterodactyle .. 1 
Me Onno Bh epoca 2 5. Zygodactyle .... 5 
3. Anisodactyle .... 12 Gs Coceyeest. serie 2 
The Picariz thus considered embrace altogether about 
1600 species of birds referable, as shown above, to twenty- 
four families. 
5. Psrrract. 
The Parrots (Psi¢taci), annexed by Cuvier and his disciples 
to the Zygodactyle, are now generally allowed to form one of 
the primary divisions of the Carinatze, as was first, I believe, 
* J. A.S. B. xi. p. 167 (1842). 
+ Cf. Sclater, Ibis, 1870, p.176. For the species of Indicator consult 
Sharpe in Rowley’s Oru. Mise, i. p. 192, and P. Z. S, 1878, p. 798. 
