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  Order 
  LONGIPENNES 
  

  

  Long-winged 
  Swimmers 
  

  

  Order 
  Lariformes, 
  Sharpe's 
  Hand-List 
  

  

  Wings 
  long 
  and 
  pointed; 
  nostrils 
  lateral 
  and 
  open; 
  hallux 
  small 
  (some- 
  

   times 
  rudimentary), 
  free 
  and 
  elevated; 
  tail 
  usually 
  long, 
  of 
  12 
  feathers; 
  

   priinaries 
  11, 
  only 
  10 
  developed; 
  fifth 
  secondary 
  wanting; 
  legs 
  coinpara- 
  

   tively 
  free 
  and 
  inserted 
  near 
  middle 
  of 
  body; 
  tarsus 
  partly 
  scutellate, 
  

   otherwise 
  reticulate; 
  tibiae 
  bare 
  for 
  a 
  short 
  distance; 
  front 
  toes 
  pahnate; 
  

   palate 
  schizognathous 
  ; 
  no 
  basipterygoids 
  ; 
  nasals 
  schizorhinal; 
  15 
  cervicals; 
  

   furcular 
  hypocleidium 
  present; 
  syringeal 
  muscles 
  one 
  pair; 
  esophagus 
  

   capacious; 
  cloaca 
  large; 
  plumage 
  af 
  tershaf 
  ted 
  ; 
  oil 
  gland 
  tiifted; 
  eggs 
  few, 
  

   usually 
  3 
  ; 
  ptilopaedic, 
  altricial 
  and 
  nidicolous 
  in 
  nature 
  ; 
  mostly 
  piscivorous 
  

   in 
  diet; 
  cosmopolitan 
  in 
  distribution; 
  maritime, 
  lacustrine 
  or 
  fluviatile 
  in 
  

   habitat; 
  shrill 
  or 
  raucous 
  in 
  voice; 
  volucral 
  in 
  habit. 
  

  

  This 
  order 
  resembles 
  most 
  nearly 
  the 
  tube-nosed 
  swimmers 
  of 
  all 
  

   the 
  natatorial 
  birds, 
  but 
  the 
  character 
  of 
  the 
  nostrils 
  easily 
  distinguishes 
  

   them 
  without 
  reference 
  to 
  internal 
  anatomy. 
  The 
  pterylosis 
  and 
  osteology 
  

   of 
  the 
  group 
  also 
  show 
  some 
  affinity 
  to 
  Limicolae 
  and 
  Alcidae. 
  

  

  