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forms, tubular or simply fissured, never abortive. No gular pouch. Wings 

 very long and pointed, surpassing tlie base, and often the end of the large, 

 well formed, few-feathered tail. Carotids double. Palate sohizognathous. 

 Eeproduotion altricial ; young ptilopaadic. Eggs three or fewer. Habits 

 highly Tohioral. 



M. PYGOPODES. Feet palmate or lobate. Tibiae feathered, often with a long 

 apophysis, always burled in the common integument neaily to the heel joint, 

 necessitating a more or less erect posture of the body on land, when progres- 

 sion is difficult. Hallux small, elevated or wanting. Bill of indeterminate 

 shape, wholly corneous, never lamellate or serrate, nor with gular pouch. 

 Nostrils not abortive. Wings very short, reaching scarcely or not to the base, 

 never to the tip, of the short, rudimentary tall. Palate sohizognathous. 

 Carotid usually double, sometimes single (in Podioeps and Mergulus.) Nature 

 altricial or prsecocial ; young ptilopsedlc. Highly natatorial. 



These orders are divided into families With few exceptions, Ohio has 

 representatives of all families of North American birds. The exceptional 

 families are — in Passeres, Cinclidas, which has a single North American 

 species, Oinclus mexicanus, the Dipper or Water Ouzel, of the Rocky Moun- 

 tain region ; Chamasidas, consisting of a single species, Chamasa fasciata, the 

 Ground Tit of the Pacific coast region ; Cssrebidse, represented by a single 

 species, Certhiola flaveola, of rare occurrence in Florida only ; in Gallinee, 

 Cracidas, represented by a single species, Ortalida vetula, Guan or Chiacalaca 

 of Texas ; in Lammellirostres, Phcenicopteridas, a single species, Phoeni- 

 copterus ruber, American Flamingo, found in Florida and on gouth Atlan- 

 tic and Gulf coast ; in Steganopodjs, Plotidse, a single species, Plotus an- 

 hinga, the Water Turkey, southern, north to Illinois; Sulidss, the Gan- 

 nets, two species; Tachypetidas, one species, Tachypetes aquila, the Man- 

 of- War Bird ; and Pha'ethonidas, also one species ; Phaethon flavirostris, the 

 Tropic Bird, all marine, and mainly southern ; in Longipennes,#ProceZ- 

 laridas, Petrels, strictly marine ; in Pygopodes, Alcidae, the Awks, also 

 strictly marine. 



