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20. ALECTORIDES. (Cranes, rails, crakes, gallinules, coots.) 
Useful products: 
Food, (rails, crakes.) D. 1. 
Feathers. D. 23. 
Useful traits: Susceptible of domestication, (cranes.) 
21. LAMELLIROSTRES. (Flamingoes, swans, geese, ducks.) 
Useful products : 
Food: Flesh, (geese, ducks.) D. 1. 
Eggs, (geese, ducks.) 
Ornamental feathers, (flamingo, geese, &c.) D. 23. 
Down, (geese, ducks.) D. 23. 
Useful traits : 
Susceptible of domestication, (geese, ducks.) 
Used as decoys for other swimmers, (brants, ducks.) 
22, STEGANOPODES. (Gannets, pelicans, cormorants, darters or 
water-turkeys, frigate birds, tropic birds.) 
Useful products : 
Ornamental feathers, (darters, tropic birds.) D. 23. 
Leather, (of feet.) D. 20. 
Useful traits: Susceptible of domestication. 
23. LONGIPENNES. (Gulls, terns, skimmers, petrels, albatrosses 
, shearwaters.) 
Useful products : 
Food, eggs. D.1. 
Ornamental feathers, (gulls, terns, &c.) D. 23. 
Oil, (petrels, &c., used by Eskimos.) D, 27. 
24. PYGOPODES. (Loons, grebes, auks, puffins, guillemot, murres.) 
Useful products : 
Foods, (eggs.) D. 1. 
Ornamental feathers, (grebes.) D. 23. 
Feathers used as furs, (grebes, auks, &c.) D. 8. 
25. SPHENISCI. (Penguins.) 
Useful products: 
Feathers used as fur. D. 6. 
Oil. D. 27. 
1 Graculus carbo used in Europe for fishing and a similar species in China, 
