406 Mr. P. L. Sclater on the present 
The family Plataleide, I may here remark, should include 
the Spoonbills and Ibises, as Nitzsch, who first constituted 
the group under the title Hemiglottides*, has shown. It is 
a common but very obvious error, well exposed by Garrod +, 
to unite the Ibises with Tantalus. But Tantalus is a true 
Stork, and has nothing to do with Jéis. The Plataleide 
differ from all the other Herodiones in being “ schizorhinal”’t, 
in which respect they deviate towards the Limicole. But 
their pterylosis is that of the Storks, “even to the smallest 
details” §. 
10. ANSERES. 
The Anseres, if considered as limited to the single family 
Anatide, constitute a rather isolated group which can be 
very easily defined. Following Parker|| and Huxley in 
the ‘ Nomenclator’ I associated the Palamedeide with the 
Anseres. But after the recent investigation of Prof. Garrod** 
it would seem impossible to deny that the peculiarities of this 
group are such as to necessitate their recognition as a separate 
order, which I propose to call Palamedez. Nitzsch has long 
ago shown that the pterylosis of Palamedea is abnormal in 
showing scarcely any appearances of spaces between the 
feather-tracts (Pterylogr. pp. 16, 121); but in the Anatide, 
also, the spaces are very narrow. 
The best position for the Palamedez appears to me to be 
just before the Anseres, which I commence with the genus 
Anseranas +7. 
1]. CotumMBz. 
We now enter upon the great Schizognathous series of 
Prof. Huxley, which, I think it must be allowed, runs on 
much more smoothly after the removal of the five preceding 
groups. The Columbe are Passerme im many respects 
(especially as regards the state m which the young are ex- 
cluded from the egg, which has caused Sundevall to place 
* Pterylography, p. 183 (Enel. tr.). + P.Z.8. 1875, p. 301. 
{ Garrod, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 37. § Nitzsch, Pterylogr. p. 133. 
|| P.Z.8. 1863, p. 511. q P.Z.8. 1867, p. 460. 
** PZ, Bn 1810,p. 189: tt See P. Z. 8. 1880, p. 497. 
